The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) expects to identify a partner within the next year for a planned demonstration small modular reactor (SMR), as it steps up efforts to revive local nuclear technology development and expand the country’s future nuclear generation capacity. CEO Loyiso Tyabashe said at the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town on Tuesday that Necsa had already issued an expression of interest to the market and hoped to select a development partner “by this time next year”.
