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Necsa re-establishing its nuclear pebble fuel production capability

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Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor
 
NUCLEAR
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) is reactivating its ability to manufacture nuclear pebble fuel, originally created to support South Africa's Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) programme. This was reported by Necsa CEO Phumzile Tshelane at a media briefing at Pelindaba on Friday. "We are taking our PBMR fuel manufacturing and test laboratories out of care and maintenance," he told Engineering News Online afterwards. "There are potential customers outside the country, that are looking for this fuel. We've had enquiries from the US, Indonesia and Russia."
 
 
 
 
 

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