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Kenya inches closer to nuclear power with Siaya plant plan.[File, Standard]
The use of nuclear technology has been mired in controversy largely because of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. In Kenya, it remains a very misunderstood concept and continues to elicit strong resistance in certain quarters.
It is these misconceptions that anti-nuclear activists harped on and denied residents of Kilifi County the pioneer bragging rights of the nuclear energy programme. What many do not know is that this technology has already been applied in various aspects of our lives in Kenya for decades.
But while the critics look backwards to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other unfortunate yet isolated cases, the world is looking towards tapping nuclear energy to provide extremely cheap electricity for industrial, commercial and domestic use.
