Naturally there will be critics if this is real. Tree huggers kwanza. But we desperately need cheap industrial electricity to be able to complete with Egypt and South Africa and Ethiopia.
Cost of electricity per kWh (USD)
Ethiopia 0.02
South Africa 0.07
Egypt 0.07
Tanzania 0.10
Nigeria 0.11
Uganda 0.16 Kenya 0.19
How can Kenya compete when electricity is this expensive?
It’s much easier to set up a factory in Ethiopia, build things and import them to Kenya and pay the customs duty.
First of all nuclear is clean energy, nuclear fuel becomes safe after 500 years so you bury it somewhere in the desert and wait
or you dump it into the ocean when no one’s watching
I thought a South Korean company won the tender to build a nuclear power station in Kenya whatever happened to that
Nuclear energy is the best way to power a country unless you live in a country that is at the mercy of natural disasters like
earth quakes and Tsunamis, Japan had to shut down most of its reactors after the Fukushima disaster bringing up the cost of electricity
Ikiwa garbage ya kawaida kudispose ni problematic, what about deadly nuclear waste? Given Kenyans’ propensity for mediocrity, corruption and laissez-faire how sure are we that the entity which will be taxed with the disposal of the nuclear waste will be competent?
We absolutely do not need nuclear energy. Especially when there is a problem of overproduction of electricity thanks to a sluggish economy, a failing KPLC and an exodus of manufacturers who cannot cope with the costs of doing business in Konyagiland.
The nuclear energy plan smacks of another harebrained GOK project that will end in tears for the taxpayer and worst of all, nuclear disaster if Kenyan environmental management standards are anything to go by.
Local compliance will definitely be an issue but this is an issue that is regulated at international level, laxity on waste disposal will render useless the introduction of nuclear energy as a compliment of the sources we have in place.
Well, there are different kinds of wastes they’re isotopes that decompose after seconds, years and others that will take centuries.
The spent fuel rods will remain hot for centuries as the isotopes break down. And for this, nuclear material is stored deep underground in vaults technology is storing these fuel rods is getting better and better. Who knows maybe the in the future we’ll be able to use that toxic energy.
Kenya, on the other hand, will not be building heavy water reactors but a medium water one and several small light water ones that will generate anywhere between 500mw - 2,000mw they produce very little waste…
In Africa, they’re only two countries that have gotten close to nuclear power DRCongo and Nigeria and to some extent apartheid South Africa. Both shut down by the West because they feared we would no longer need them… That is all changing best we build smart minds that would lead us beyond fusion to fission that is where the future is…