Opinion | Nuclear Power in Kenya — From Policy to Possibility
"The question is no longer whether Kenya will pursue nuclear power—but when, where, and how." Kenya is making one of the ...
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If We Are Getting Power Plants On Boats, Let A Few Be Nuclear
The Heresy of Questioning Kenya's Power Surplus Three years ago, during the Africa Climate Summit, when Levelized Cost of Electricity ...
Opinion | Why the Digital Savannah Needs a Nuclear-Powered Silicon Savannah
The Multi-purpose Hybrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications (MYRRHA), currently under construction at the Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK-CEN) in ...
Opinion | Power or Perish: Is Kenya Ready for the Energy Demands of the 4th Industrial Revolution?
The demand for reliable energy is no longer a luxury—it’s a non-negotiable in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. ...
Opinion | Discourse on the Siaya Nuclear Power Plant Should Be Factual
Nuclear energy has always attracted strong opinions, even in countries like France, which has operated 56 reactors supplying more than ...
Opinion | Is Kenya’s Nuclear Dream a Bold Vision or a Risky Gamble?
The sun is setting. A highly hyped VURUGU boxing match is underway at Kasarani Indoor Arena. Fans of Majembe and ...
Opinion | From Rain-Soaked Commutes to Nuclear Power: Why Kenya’s Energy Future Can’t Wait
It’s raining. Across Nairobi, hardworking Kenyans are rushing home from work. Mama mbogas hurriedly folds the mats where her produce ...
Opinion | Nuclear Energy Debate: An Invented Crisis with billions of casualties
In the late 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation, burdened by its guilt for the role it played in the Manhattan Project, ...
Why Raila’s Last Wish on Nuclear Energy Should Be Honored
The world was a very different place on March 11th, 2011, than it was on April 26th, 1986. While it ...
KenGen Joins the Silicon Savanah’s Nuclear Relay Team
While Kenya’s nuclear power relay team started running decades ago, the most recent handover happened this week as Nuclear Power ...
Beyond Megawatts – Nuclear Science and Technology Policy as a Socio-technical Imaginary
In the same month that the Trinity Test ushered in the Atomic Age, Vannevar Bush, who was then the head ...
The Path To Ending Energy Poverty In Kenya Is Paved With Conventional Nuclear Reactors And Not Smrs
Nuclear Renaissance 2.0 hit full throttle in September 2025. It began in Paris, where the Organization for Economic Co-operation and ...
IAEA Milestones – Africa’s Map the Global Nuclear Power Race
With the surge of interest in nuclear energy, driven by the twin imperatives of energy security & climate change mitigation ...
Why Africa’s Youth Should Lead Nuclear Revolution
When most people hear the word “nuclear”, their minds race to images of mushroom clouds, Cold War missiles, or the ...
Energy Trilemma: Kenya’s Ambition Meets Hard Math
KenGen’s recent launch of a 1.16 megawatt-hour (MWh) Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Nairobi came with all the typical ...