From left to right: Francois Mellett (Director: Operations, Stratek Global); Francois Reyneke (Director: Commercial, Stratek Global); Kelvin Kemm (Chairman, Stratek Global); Daniel Hayward (Company Lawyer, Stratek Global); David Boyes (Managing Director, Steenkampskraal Thorium Ltd); Olof Vorster (Director, Business Development, Resonant Nu Teq)

In the last decade of the 20th Century, South African Nuclear Technologists started the process of developing a small nuclear reactor that would not need water-cooling, and would serve large mining and industrial complexes in arid inland regions. Helium gas was chosen for reactor cooling, and the fuel chosen was the ."pebble" type. The design concept was to be a modular fabrication approach… and so the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project was born. In 2008, with a 2000 strong workforce, the PBMR team was ready to launch their First Of A Kind prototype. However, due to the international financial crisis large international banks, who were involved in financing deals withdrew. This together with an unexpected change in government caused the PBMR, to be placed on "hold". The "hold" lasted and lasted. As a result, a small group of nuclear scientists and engineers formed a private company and embarked on developing a simplified variant of the SMR concept. Ten years of development followed.. Then a visionary nuclear team decided to draw the South African expertise into a marketable whole … STRATEK GLOBAL was Born!