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The global electricity debate has reached a critical impasse. While developed nations debate the finer points of renewable electricity portfolios, like how much profit is being made, billions of people in the world remain trapped in electricity poverty.

The tripling of global nuclear capacity by 2050 can be achieved, provided governments take immediate and sustained action to deliver on their own national targets for nuclear capacity, a report from World Nuclear Association concludes.

"A comprehensive articulation of the energy mix that will power the South African future economy"

The Africa Energy Indaba is pleased to
announce the 15th edition of its Nuclear Forum, scheduled to take place from 3 - 5 March
2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

The African Energy Indaba, (3rd to the 5th of March 2026) has been endorsed by the Minister of the Department of Electricity & Energy.
The Indaba will cover all energy technologies for Africa including Nuclear Energy in a separate Nuclear Forum on the 5th.
Come and connect with key local and international nuclear industry stakeholders at the Nuclear Forum.
The SA Nuclear Build Platform will be helping to coordinate the Nuclear Forum.

MINISTRY FOR ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY
Ministerial Media Briefing on IRP 2025

Energy leaders from around the world convened in Durban last week for the first ever high level G20 meeting on nuclear energy, held amid rising projections for nuclear power expansion.

In the latest update video, Hinkley Point C’s Project Delivery Director, Simon Parsons takes us behind the scenes as the site focus shifts to a new phase. With the civil construction work nearing completion and the second dome in place, attention is now firmly on the power station’s fit out with pipes, cables and equipment.

South Africa has plans for 10 GW of new nuclear energy capacity and to restart its pebble bed modular reactor programme as well as re-establishing the full nuclear fuel cycle in the country, a World Nuclear Symposium discussion on growing nuclear capacity across Africa heard.

In 1969, the U.S. was flipping the switch on three new nuclear reactors a year—fast, efficient, and powering millions of homes. Then, almost overnight, the industry collapsed, not because of accidents like Three Mile Island, but because of a single rule that changed everything. This video uncovers the little-known story of how fear, regulation, and economics killed America’s nuclear momentum. And why small modular reactors might finally bring it back.

the State-owned South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) Group welcomes the upholding of the decision to grant State-owned Eskom environmental authorisation to build a 4 000 MW nuclear power station in Duynefontein, in the Western Cape.

The Deputy Minister of Electricity and Energy Samantha Graham-Maré says the transition to Nuclear Energy will need financial commitment. Graham-Maré made the remarks on the sidelines of the G20 Energy Transition Working Group's 3rd Technical Meeting in Sun City in the North West Province.

Germany, the United States, the UK, the EU, and many other countries are looking toward hydrogen to be a clean miracle fuel to power the future. It sounds good at first, but hydrogen has a bunch of problems - one of which is that it’s highly inefficient. “The most dumb thing I could possibly imagine for energy storage” Elon Musk called it. I agree.

NucCol is pleased to announce that they have taken over the delivery of the Fit 4 Nuclear (F4N) supply chain programme from the The University of Sheffield (formerly via the Nuclear AMRC) allowing the successful programme to continue. This change comes at a time of significant opportunity for UK supply chain companies looking to support nuclear programmes bringing much needed additional capability and capacity into the UK supply chain.

The PBMR is a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). It was being developed by South Africa from 1994 (although the preliminary work predated that year) to 2009, when it was effectively terminated, through being reduced to a care-and-maintenance status.

Australia’s soaring power bills, up $1,000 since 2020, exposes the broken promises of cheap renewable energy. Wind and solar are increasingly unreliable, burdened by costly batteries and sprawling transmission lines. Nuclear power stands ready—clean, dependable, and proven. Why do policymakers turn away, deepening our cost-of-living crisis?

As South Africa takes the helm of the G20 Presidency in 2025, there is widespread curiosity about the nation’s agenda and whether nuclear energy will feature prominently in these critical discussions, writes Princess Mthombeni.

Eskom says the critical maintenance on Koeberg’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor is almost complete and the unit should return to service later this month.

The power utility was forced to delay its return to December 2024 due to welding challenges during the maintenance of the nuclear generation unit.

PARIS, Nov 27(Reuters) - French officials are drawing up plans to provide an interest-free loan to state-owned power utility EDF to finance a significant portion of the construction of six new nuclear reactors, two people familiar with the matter said.

The Department of Electricity and Energy is preparing a report to Cabinet to recommend the approval of lifting the pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) from care and maintenance to allow South Africa to revive the development of its PBMR capability.

Developing countries are spearheading the shift towards nuclear power in a world where reliable and sustainable electricity sources are crucial, while wealthier nations focus on weather-dependent wind and solar power for so-called renewable electricity.

The epic story of the largest nuclear fusion reactor ever built.

The Minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, and the executive team in the energy sector has given South Africa a break from loadshedding by effectively raising the energy availability factor (EAF) of our coal power stations. Something that couldn’t be achieved in more than a decade.

Hinkley Point C has released a new video showing work underway to install the heart of the new nuclear power station.

Take a look and join Simon Parsons as he lifts the lid on preparation to install the first nuclear reactor, steam generators and the world's largest turbine - the Arabelle.

A ceremony in Wyoming yesterday marked the official start of construction of TerraPower’s planned Natrium reactor demonstration project.

Renewed interest in nuclear energy might yet support renewables in outpacing global coal-fired power generation.

Koya Capital has signed a partnership agreement to work with Stratek Global to secure financing and construction of a ZAR9 billion (USD480 million) first-of-a-kind reactor in South Africa.

Global momentum for nuclear power continued to build as world leaders from more than 30 countries and the European Union (EU) met at the inaugural Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels.

The big wins for “Oppenheimer” at Sunday’s Academy Awards are not the only attention the nuclear industry has experienced in recent days.

Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said procuring the new nuclear energy generation capacity is being done per the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).

It had already been signed off by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) and in consultation with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE).

Gish-galloping is a rhetorical technique where the debater enumerates a series of erroneous arguments in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the other person to address all of the claims.

Twenty-nine early career professionals built their knowledge of nuclear power programme development at the fourth edition of the Nuclear Energy Management School in South Africa from 13 to 24 November 2023.

The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, Huaneng Shandong Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant in eastern China's Shandong Province, went into commercial operation on December 6, 2023 and has been running well, according to officials at the plant.

When you hear the words “clean energy,” what comes to mind?

Most people immediately think of solar panels or wind turbines, but how many of you thought of nuclear energy?