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South Africa
Operating
2
Number of Reactors
(as of April 2026)
41.4
Mean Age of Reactor Fleet
(as of April 2026)
3.3%
Stable
Nuclear Share in Electricity Production
(2024)
WNISR
in the Media –
30 March 2025
Daily Maverick (South Africa)
(Opinion) Nuclear power will never be a viable solution to Africa’s energy needs
Africa is blessed with enormous potential from solar, wind, geothermal and hydro. Renewables can meet 75% of Africa’s electricity needs by 2040 and 100% by 2050. by Neil Overy • 25 March 2025 On 23 January 2025, Daily Maverick carried an opinion piece by Jakkie Cilliers from the Institute for Security Studies (
ISS
) which concluded that nuclear power was “a viable future option for many African countries”. This conclusion was based on many false assumptions about nuclear power, and – (…)
The Annual Reports –
4 September 2018
Nuclear Power: Strategic Asset, Liability or Increasingly Irrelevant?
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 Released
Paris, London, 4 September 2018. Nuclear power plants added a total of 7-gigawatt (
GW
) capacity to the world’s electricity grids in 2017 and the first half of 2018, a tiny fraction of the total from all sources, which is estimated at some 257
GW
(net) in 2017, including 157
GW
of renewable capacity (the largest increase ever). Over that 18-month period, six reactors started up in China, two in Russia and one in Pakistan. For the third year in a row, excluding China, global nuclear power generation has declined, finds the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2018 (
WNISR2018
).