Necsa Annual Report 2008/09 Portfolio Committee Presentation

PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

By: Rob AdamNecsa CEO

27 October 2009

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Necsa Board of Directors

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Demographic SnapshotTotal staff: 1870

Management number 38, of whom 18 are black and 8 are women.

34% of engineers are black and 24% are women

39% of scientists are black and 29% are women

Necsa is a level 3 BBBEE contributor.

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Safety Snapshot

Presentation Plan

1. Necsa’s legal mandate

2. Key highlights

3. Performance against agreed indicators

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Necsa’s Legal MandateNuclear Energy Act No 46 of 1999

1. Nuclear research & development

2. Nuclear fuel research and production, including uranium enrichment

3. Co-operation with other organizations in the nuclear domain.

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Nuclear Energy Policy for SA June 2008

• Necsa to act as the anchor for nuclear R&D

• Necsa to investigate and reestablishment nuclear

fuel cycle in SA

• Localisation of nuclear manufacturing

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Necsa Highlights 2008/09• Necsa Group annual turnover breached the R1

billion threshold to reach R1,15 billion in 2009.

• Necsa subsidiary NTP Radioisotopes became the largest global producer of radiochemicals.

• NTP played a key role in alleviating the global Mo-99 supply crisis.

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Necsa Group Financial PerformanceDescription 2007

R’m2008R’m

2009R’m

Sales: Goods & Services 437,2 515,6 621,4

Government & Sundry Grants 326,6 345,2 502,7

Other Income 28,8 21,1 28,3

Personnel Expenses (335,3) (376,4) (424,3)

Other Expenses (367,1) (480,7) (628,0)

Net Finance Income 11,2 23,1 41,5

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ISOTOPES SALES PERFORMANCE PAST 9 YEARS

Radioisotopes ... Necsa is 1st in the world!

Sales to 55 countries

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Necsa Highlights 2008/09

• Conversion of SAFARI-1 to utilise LEU

• Spent 7,3% of staff budget on training

• Launched the Nuclear Science Centre project

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Necsa Highlights 2008/09

Safari-1 Research Reactor

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Safari-1 Research Reactor

Converted to low enriched uranium fuel in 2009!

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Nuclear Skills Development Centre• NSDC provides training to Necsa, stakeholders and

contractors in nuclear and energy field

• Since January 2008, 278 apprentices received skills training - consisting of 83% black and 36% females

• The training units include Electrical (Heavy Current), Instrumentation & Control, Welding, Boilermaker, Machine shop, Fitter Shop and Draughting & Design

• NSDC student residence accommodates 160 students.

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Training Units

Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering

Fabrication

Visitor Centre Concept• A nuclear science education exhibition

• A VIP and corporate quality space

• Learning facilities for visitors and staff

Primary Audience:

• Learners: Secondary and Tertiary

• Scientists and researchers

• General Public / Community

• Stakeholders

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Visitor Centre ConceptENERGY NUCLEAR SCIENCE REACTORS

RADIATION & RADIOACTIVITY WASTE TEMPORARY EXHIBITION SPACE

Interactive Timelines

EXHIBITS - Some Examples

Talking Frame

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Necsa’s Strategic Clusters• Nuclear Power Cluster

U-conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication, used fuel management, nuclear manufacturing localisation

• Radiation Products and Services ClusterRadiation science R&D, SAFARI-1 operations, production and supply of radiochemicals and services

• Hosting of Nuclear ProgrammesNuclear licensed infrastructure, Licensing and SHEQ system, Nuclear safeguards management, nuclear security

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Nuclear Power Cluster Performance• Nuclear Fuel Cycle establishment

• National Nuclear Manufacturing Centre

• Performance affected by Eskom’s postponement of Nuclear 1

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Annual project schedule

Target 85% Achieved 80%

Fabrication Turnover Target R35m

Actual R24,4m

Radiation Products and Services Cluster

• SAFARI-1 Operations

• NTP Group Production & Sales of Radiation Products

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Reactor availability – all cycles achieved

Target 100% Actual 100%

Radiation Products External Sales

Target R330m

Actual R422m

Hosting of Nuclear Programmes ClusterSHEQ Regulatory

ComplianceTarget 75% Actual 78%

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Work-related injuries DIIR Target < 1 Actual 0,89

NKP Security Events Target - 0 No Events Recorded

Annual Site Refurbishment Plan

Target 80% of Annual Plan

Actual 100% of Plan

R&D Output and Capacity Development

Successful Innovations Target 4 (3yr MA) Actual 7

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Refereed Scientific Publications Target 0,4 Actual 0,32

Upgrading of R&D Infrastructure Target R9,3m Actual R19,3m

Human Resources & TrainingPercentage of Technical Staff in Total Staff

Target 53% Actual 46,9%

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Black Technical Staff as Percentage of All Technical staff

Target 44% Actual 40,1%

Percentage of Staff Budget Spent on Training and Development

Target 4,5% Actual 7,3%

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