Granted. Nuclear is expensive - but far cheaper per MWH than any of Kengen's capital escapades - and somehow dreamy. The cost of Nuclear is around US$5 billion per 8750 MW plant if we go by the latest Nuclear Deal (UAE - Korea Electric) at 20.47 billion for 4 plants with 35,000 per the below link:

http://online.wsj.com/ar...574621653002992302.html

And we only need like 10,000 so may even get a cheaper plant if need be). And we have to look ahead. Nuclear is perpetual. Hydro -in Kenya- is seasonal, unreliable, frustrating and expensive and has DIRE environmental implications. Generally a great impendiment to development as we know it.

So i dare suggest it is high time we as a Nation stopped having 20 year visions (vision 2030) if we supporting strategies are limited to 3 year sub-plans (Kengens 3000 MW targets). It is a non workable mismatch.

Old Men Dream, Young Men see Visions......

Quite interesting. Kerabu i quite agree with you on our dreams(vision 2030) which we end up calling visions. I also find Kengen expansion unambitious but I still find it the best and only listed company that is investing in the lucrative power sector and which can access long term loans at 2%-12.5% interest and can build on fast track thermal and geothermal plants. This is a long term stock it's like buying EABL in the 1980's

Mukiha, we get diploma guys to run the plant and end up with some guy in Narok selling the fuel or worse Homer Simpson. For now the financially viable plants is thermal and geothermal and wind. Just look at the Philippines Bataan nuclear power plant constructed by president marcos at a cost of 2.3 billion dollars and completed in 1984 but it has never produced a watt of electricity before it was condemned by international inspectors now the taxpayers there pay for a white elephant.

Hi Guys,

sorry to say that, but to integrate a nuklear plant in that shady distribution grid here in Kenya, it will burn out every substation! Look at your distribution grid here in nairobi.By roaming around here, i find pole transformer not protected by a fuse! What you think, what is happen you have extent the amount of produced MW with a Nukeplant and your pole transformer has an internal fault! There is than an explosion and maybe about the short circuit more pole transformers are scrap than. Go out in the night with open eyes and you find Transformers and parts of your distribution grid are glowing! When you extent your power output to a grid...that grid must be capable to handle the power! To integrate one Power plant that double your generated MW you also need to invest in your grid! And sorry your Distribution is not standard ... it is not professional build, becomes no maintenance...look how many trees grow in the over head lines (powerloss..what the customers has to pay) no separation in section..what means by one fault a big area is affected ( blackout).

And at least: a nuke plant produce waste material ...where you put this waste? You are not even able to handle your household and industrial waste! Now you get to big for one's boots ...or! Start small...start by the distribution up grade this, build partitions, so that is not all affected by one fault...in first world countries there build the Grid like N+1 that means to everything is one in reserve! make maintenance...that reduce power loss and make the grid staple.

@DrStorm: A simple nuclear power lesson will help. A nuclear reactor's job is to produce heat. This heat boils water to generate steam. The steam turns a turbine...from there the rest of the system is identical to a hydro, or diesel or coal, or whatever power plant. There is nothing so special about it!! Electricity is electricity is electricity!!

Secondly; the power that goes into the grid is determined by the DEMAND, not the production! So you can put up a 10,000MW power station but if the demand is 1,000MW then only 1,000MW will go into the grid.

Finally; did you know that the top 4 largest power stations in the world are all hydro? In fact, the largest nuclear plant comes in at no 5.

@Mukiha..

I cannot believe you afforded Strom's condescending tone a response. How were you able to understand what he wrote?