Mr Thabo J. Tselane is appointed Group Managing Director at NTP Radioisotopes SOC Ltd. He carried added responsibilities at NECSA such as Acting Group Executive: Corporate Services, as Board of Director at NTP Radioisotopes SOC (one of its subsidiary) and also served as the Acting Managing Director for NTP.

He holds a M.Sc. (Nuclear Physics) from the University of the Western Cape. He joined Necsa in March 2014 as Divisional Executive: Nuclear Operations. Over the years, he acquired academic qualification in Project Management, completed a Senior Management Programme with the University of Pretoria. Furthermore, he obtained a Global Development Management Programme at Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

He also worked at BKS Consulting Engineers as a General Manager in Rustenburg and also for DPI-Fike Plastics as Manager. Prior to joining Necsa, he was Senior Executive Manager for Nuclear Compliance Assurance and Enforcement and finally the Interim Chief Executive Officer for the national Nuclear Regulator (NNR). He also served the Vice Chairperson of Regulatory Cooperation Forum (RCF) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); member of the IAEA’s Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC); Nuclear Safety Standards Committee (NUSSC), and Chairperson of the Southern African Radiation Protection Association (SARPA).

Mr Jackson Selome joined Necsa in the year 2000 and became part of NTP Radioisotopes when it was corporatized in 2003. His work experience in the Nuclear Industry spans more than 19 years, of which more than 15 years were at various levels of Radioisotopes production management and he later joined Vaalputs Waste Disposal Facility as a manager. He is now appointed as NTP Radioisotopes Production General Manager.

Mr Selome holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from University of Cape Town, Fundamentals of Senior Management (Cum laude) from UNISA and an MBA from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.