Press Releases

Necsa responds to the article published in farmers weekly

Necsa responds to the article written by Abrie Steyn who wrote movingly about the death of his friend, Mike Elliot. In his article, published by Farmer's Weekly on 07 May 2010, Abrie talks about the pollution in the Hartebeespoort Dam.

NTP Radioisotopes wins TT100 award

Necsa's subsidiary NTP Radioisitopes (Pty) Ltd (NTP) has walked away with the Department of Science and Technology award for excellence in the management of innovation, at an event hosted by Da Vinci Technology Top100 (TT100) at Vodaworld on 28 April 2010.

Next Generation Nuclear Security Summit

The next Generation Nuclear Security Summit currently being hosted by President Obama in Washington is an unprecedented event. Forty-seven heads of State from the developped and the developing world have gathered to agree on measures to prevent nuclear terrorism and to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials.

Nuclear reactor uses only Low Enriched uranium (LEU) for the first time

The South African Fundamental Atomic Research Installation (SAFARI-1), at the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), was restarted on Thursday 25th June at 08:45, following a routine and refuelling shutdown, at full power and with its core fully fuelled with Low Enriched Uranium (LEU).