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.

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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!

Renewable energy has come way long and I sincerely doubt that, in terms of costs per MW, nuclear energy is any longer cheaper. Close home, the initial cost of LTWP in Lolangaliani was about kshs 17b for 388Mw of power. Would the cost of same size nuclear plant be the same? I really doubt. Yet, even if they were to cost the same, we are agreed the nuclear plant comes with risks,however infetisimal they may be. I am yet to hear of death,accidents or environmental pollution as a result of solar or wind power generation.

We have very very very very very expensive power.

Where will this plant be based? Nyanza?

Wasilete nyanza please they can take it to masukuma's county .he can help them with disaster management when the shit hits the fan.
Btw why is masukuma only for this nuclear crap?