So much talk. I'm yet to see him actually do something

Congo has been running a couple like forever

That's an absurd statement if ever there was one. Geothermal and hydropower have their own significant risks and yet we seem to have managed quite fine.

nuclear power is like aircrafts - it's the safest widely used energy source but just has a bad name coz when it goes wrong it kills many. but coal kills more!

death from Coal stats dwarf everything you say! As I said... nuclear power is like airtravel - the safest on the planet. it's tragic when it happens but the problem at 3 miles, fukushima and Chernobyl will not be repeated.... if nukes have issues again it will be a fresh issue unlike people dying from the same old problem with coal!

Nuclear is like death by lions or terrorism.... everyone gets to hear the story but in reality mosquitoes will kill tonnes more! Did you know that, if you take every single person killed in a terrorist attack around the world in the last 20 years, and you add all the lives lost in the Middle East since 1967, and you add to that every American life lost in Vietnam, Korea, and every single American engagement since then, Iraq, Afghanistan. If you take all those lives, and you multiply it by 2, that's the number of children who die from malaria in a year. 91% of those deaths are in Africa? stats don't lie... narratives do!

This is an outright stupid idea. Countries such as Germany,France,Austria,Australia,Spain are coming out of (phasing-out) nuclear and here we are thinking that we are very intelligent. Invest in renewable energy and we will have abundant clean power at a fraction of the cost. Let's talk nuclear energy when and if the sun decides to never rise again.

I have read all those things you have pointed to... for years I have done my research... the very thing you are considering safe will kill you.... just silently! Stats don't lie... Al Shabab will kill less people than than people who drown in kenya... only that al shabab's killings are dramatized! same with nuclear power - everyone who reads stats knows it's way safer than many things however due to dramatisation around it people fear it and don't fear mosquitoes or coal. if it's death you are fearing - fix the stuff that is known to kill others. Plus just because someone else is doing something does not mean that you should do it! I remember Koreans banning flights because of "ebola" ... and some people here were saying KAMA KOREAN WHO BUILD SAMSUNG GALAXY ARE FEARING IT - NI SISI? just because someone did one thing does not mean you should do it just because they did the said thing. Show me numbers and I will follow you... not narratives!

Chemirocha with all due respect I clearly understand where you are coming from but I have 4 questions for you :


1 If there happens a leakage like the one that happened in pollman Washington state how would kenya government handle it mr.chemirocha? With all these boreholes people are digging left right and centre???

leakage in usa

2 Countries that are managing well the nuclear powers are first world? Kenya do we have technology ? Do we even have courses in colleges about nuclear ? Don't talk about Iran and north Korea ,there is politics and hidden agenda on those nuclear ambitions

3 do we have disaster management plan should there be a crisis of nuclear like japan ?do we?Lorry ya mafuta inaanguka and instead of poeple evacuating, they run to steal fuel.They get burnt to ashes. Another tanker falls a week later same crap same death. An unfortunate accident happened in Thika road sometime back .A woman had a leg that was cut and she was bleeding . People rushed to see and the went away screaming "huyo amekufa hayuko?" And she was still alive , guess what because of lack of ambulances and mere FIRST AID TRAINING she passed on 2 hrs later.Now back to my point ,with this kind of mentality and culture do you think we can manage crisis?

4 have we exhausted all the available green energies sources ???

5 kwani usa na Russia ni wajinga when they try to discourage people from doing nuclear?why are they even moving away from nuclear and going green ?

As you advised I have put my emotional feelings aside.answer categorically all these 5 questions with facts and I'll respect your contribution.meanwhile answer them one by one as I have stated ....I'm waiting...

Very reasonable questions, I will try my best to answer you.

1. The facility at Pullman Washington State University is a research institution and not explicitly the field of power generation. The way I understand it, the incident involved a leak in the university sewer system and was picked before any damage to human life or the environment. A high standard of safety should be a must if we are to even consider the nuclear route.

2. Developing countries such as South Africa, Pakistan, India, Egypt and former Soviet Union/ Warsaw Pact states such as Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia have run nuclear power plants.

Since 2012, Kenya has been partnering with the International Atomic Energy Agency to train engineers and build capacity. Locally UoN does offer courses in nuclear science at the Masters level. The expertise is definitely there.

3. The biggest disaster from a power generation project was a dam failure in China. Over 100,000 perished and 11 million were displaced. At present there are also fears over the Kariba Dam in Zambia/ Zimbabwe and Mosul Dam in Iraq.

Secondly geothermal power projects have resulted in earthquakes in Switzerland and the United States.

Seven Forks and Olkaria have been running for many years without the fear of catastrophic failure. The point is Kenya has a reasonable level of competency when it comes to managing such complex and high risk projects. Nuclear should not be treated any different.

4. Kenya is presently at its peak capacity with hydroelectric power generation and geothermal capacity is not as promising as the state's ambition of achieving 5000 MW production.

Wind and solar may sound good but they are both expensive and impractical. Remember solar power is unavailable at peak consumer demand which is in the evening and night time.

Another example, the planned Kajiado wind farm is expected to bring a peak 100 MW from a construction cost of 22 billion shillings. Compare with Olkaria III which is expected to produce 110 MW from a construction cost of 3 billion. You be the judge on which is more cost effective.

5. Admittedly the European Union and Japan and strongly against nuclear power generation. The big powers Germany, UK and France intend to completely phase out nuclear power out of safety concerns.

On the other hand, the United States has commissioned nine new nuclear plants in the last ten years alone. Russia and China are also investing billions of dollars to build new nuclear power plants and upgrade existing facilities.