ESI Africa releases Nuclear Energy volume tracking Africa's shift from nuclear ambition to bankable projects

ESI Africa, published by VUKA Group ( www.WeAreVuka.com ), today released its Nuclear Energy volume, examining how more than a dozen African countries are moving nuclear power from policy ambition toward financed, under-construction projects. The volume arrives as two of the continent's most advanced nuclear programmes reach fresh milestones. In Egypt, the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 2 of the El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country's first nuclear facility, was installed in its design position on 9 July 2026, following the same milestone at Unit 1 in November 2025. The four-unit, 4,800MW plant is being built by Rosatom under an intergovernmental agreement signed in 2015. In South Africa, Koeberg's Unit 2 received its long-term operating licence in November 2025, extending operations to 9 November 2045, following Unit 1's extension to 21 July 2044, granted in July 2024. The Volume also reviews the reactor technology South Africa is likely to consider once bidding opens for its second nuclear build, targeted at 5,200MW by 2039, comparing the construction cost and delivery record of the AP1000, the EPR, South Korea's APR-1400, Russia's VVER-1200 and China's Hualong One designs.