TCS | Inside AfriForum's plan to deploy modular nuclear reactors in SA - TechCentral

Afrikaner civil rights organisation, wants to deploy pebble-bed modular nuclear reactors in South African communities to help solve the country’s crippling energy woes. But why PBMRs? And how will the project work exactly?to want to involve itself in electricity generation, but the move makes perfect sense, argues Johan Kruger, its head of community independence.

In the longer term, the organisation hopes to work with the private sector to reduce South African communities’ dependence on the state for electricity supply. Kruger explains that the government’s inability to provide not only electricity reliably, but also water and other basic services, means that many of these will be offered in future by the private sector or by communities themselves working with private entities.

C5 Capital is an investor in X-Energy, a US company whose staff includes senior South African nuclear scientistson 22 January that AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel was engaging with André Pienaar, a South African businessman and founder and CEO of C5 Capital – a venture capital firm that invests in companies focused on space, cybersecurity and nuclear energy – about deploying PBMRs in South Africa.

C5 Capital is an investor in X-Energy, a US company whose staff includes senior South African nuclear scientists. X-energy is taking forward some of the pioneering work into PBMRs that was done on South African soil before government withdrew its funding in 2010., Kruger unpacks the South African origin of the PBMR technology and what an AfriForum-supported deployment of modular reactors into communities might look like.

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