nuclear energy – AFRICSIS

Atoms for Africa: Is There a Future for Civil Nuclear Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

May 11, 2018 AFRICSIS 0

Historically, many emerging economies have turned to nuclear power to meet energy deficits, and there is immense potential for nuclear to provide a clean baseload —Read More—

Phumzile Tshelane, the chief executive of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) believes nuclear power is the way to create jobs. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

South Africa’s contentious nuclear program faces yet another setback

October 3, 2016 AFRICSIS 0

South Africa, a country beset by frequent power outages, will have to wait a little longer before pressing ahead with a highly contentious and very —Read More—

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Amano highlights Africa’s importance to IAEA

March 24, 2015 AFRICSIS 0

Supporting Africa is a “high priority” for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation’s director general, Yukiya Amano, said yesterday in his opening —Read More—

Nuclear power plants could be a solution to global climate change, Scientists say

December 9, 2013 Hubert Foy 0

Four prominent U.S. and Australia-based climate and Earth-system scientists released an open letter early November calling on world leaders and environmentalists to support the —Read More—