The latest version of South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan outlines government plans to transform the energy sector to jump-start development and economic growth, including 5200 MW of new nuclear capacity as the country rebuilds its nuclear supply chain.
 

The challenge of how to train and develop the workforce needed for the proposed tripling of nuclear energy capacity by 2050 formed the basis of a discussion at a side event organised by South Africa and World Nuclear University at the International Atomic Energy Agency's 69th General Conference in Vienna.
 

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.
 

South Africa's Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has upheld a 2017 decision to grant Eskom environmental authorisation to construct and operate a new nuclear power station in Duynefontein, in the Western Cape.
 

South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator has granted a nuclear licence to the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute for the management and operation of South Africa's disposal facility for low-level radioactive wastes.

US-based Deep Geo Inc and South Africa-based Allweld Nuclear and Industrial have signed a memorandum of understanding to support the development of new nuclear power capacity in Africa.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says that participants at the recent Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa agreed "​that ​small modular reactors hold immense promise for accelerating Africa's energy transition" and their successful deployment "hinges not just on technological readiness, but on robust supporting infrastructure".

South Africa's Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has told a G20 working group meeting that decarbonisation and development can be complementary, and nuclear energy should play its part.

The first expert session within the framework of the BRICS Nuclear Energy Platform has been held in China, with leading experts discussing best practices for implementing modern solutions in the energy sector.