IAEA expert team in Uganda to support country’s uranium production plans

A specialist expert mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is currently in Uganda to undertake a review connected with the East African country’s nuclear energy ambitions, specialist news agency World Nuclear News reports. Uganda plans to construct 24 000 MWe of nuclear energy capacity, and has selected Russian and South Korean companies to each build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in the country. These two NPPs will have a combined capacity of 15 000 MW. The IAEA team visiting the country is an Integrated Uranium Production Cycle Review (IUPCR) mission. This type of mission serves to help IAEA member countries develop infrastructure for their own uranium production programmes, across all the stages of the uranium production cycle.