Experience

Steenkampskraal Thorium Ltd

• Managing Director of Steenkampskraal Thorium Limited

  • Jan 2013 - Present

  I have over 30 years of nuclear fuel process development and fuel manufacturing experience. I started work at the then Atomic Energy Corporation where I developed uranium dioxide pellet fuel for the Koeberg Nuclear Power station. This involved the research and development of the powder metallurgical route to fabricate fuel on an industrial scale for Koeberg. I then became Production Manager of the uranium powder production plant and the uranium chemical recovery plant at the Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA. I then joined PBMR and produced the first uranium dioxide kernels for pebble fuel. I was responsible for all the uranium process facilities needed for the manufacture of pebble fuel at PBMR. I now serve as managing director of STL and serve on the STL board overseeing the HTMR reactor program and I am responsible for the development and supply of qualified pebble fuel for the HTMR reactor, and also responsible for the extraction and purification plants for rare earth elements and thorium for nuclear fuel from the Steenkampskraal mine. I also represent STL interests in Thor Energy in Norway where the qualification of thorium containing nuclear fuel is underway. Show less