SAFARI-1
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SAFARI-1 is a 20 MW research reactor, initially used for high level nuclear physics research programmes and was commissioned in 1965.
The reactor is owned and operated by NECSA at their facility in Pelindaba, South Africa.
The reactor was built in cooperation with the Atoms for Peace program run by the US DOE in the 1950s and 60s. It is a sister reactor of the HFR reactor in Petten. (Reference needed)
The reactor is a pool type reactor and is designed to run on Highly enriched Uranium. Currently the fuel in use is the remains of the decommissioned South African nuclear weapons.
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