Press Releases
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MEDIA RELEASE ON NECSA GROUP CEO, DR ROB ADAM (30 November 2011)
The Chief Executive of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), Dr Rob Adam, will be leaving Necsa after being at the helm of the corporation for six productive years. He will be pursuing an opportunity in the private sector from February 2012.
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASME III CODE FOR NECSA (19 October 2011)
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) through one of its divisions, Nuclear Technology Industrialisation (NTI) is announcing its recently acquired qualification as a component manufacturer, certified to manufacture power generation components according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code of Standards. This certification will among other prospects, enable Necsa to tap into business opportunities which are currently being lost to foreign countries at a high cost to South Africa. The accreditation will also enable Necsa to achieve maximum localisation levels, in line with government’s policy imperatives, including the Nuclear New build programme.
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MEDIA RELEASE: MICRO FOCUS X-RAY SYSTEM LAUNCH (30 June 2011)
Necsa is to launch a new powerful 225kV Micro-focus X-ray tomography system on 01 July 2011, which was obtained through National Research Fund - Research Infrastructure Support Programme (NRF-RISP) funding. This analytical instrument will be the first of its kind to be made available free of cost to South African post graduate students and researchers from academia and science councils to obtain high resolution 3 dimensional information of the interior of their samples in a non-destructive manner. The launch will highlight the capabilities, potential, strengths and weaknesses of this analytical system in context of other complementary X-ray and neutron imaging techniques already available at Necsa.
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Media Release: SA Cabinet approves the Integrated Resource Plan 2010 (IRP 2010) 18 March 2011
Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town, on 16 March 2011 where it considered, deliberated and approved the Policy Adjusted IRP 2010 (Integrated Resource Plan 2010) for promulgation by the Department of Energy.
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Fundamentals of the Fukushima nuclear power reactors (Document released on 14 March 2011)
The plants at Fukushima are the so called Boiling Water Reactors or BWR’s for short. The nuclear fuel heats up the water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines which in turn run generators to produce electricity, the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water sent back to be heated again by the nuclear fuel.
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