CABINET APPROVAL OF MULTIPURPOSE REACTOR ENSURES SOUTH AFRICA RETAINS ITS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
27 September 2021 The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) welcomes Cabinet approval of the Multipurpose Reactor (MPR). The MPR is intended to succeed SAFARI-1 when it reaches its end of life. SAFARI-1, a 20 MW light water-cooled research reactor, went critical (a reactor achieves criticality when each fission event…