Decarbonization to create a CO2-neutral global economy requires decarbonizing all sectors that largely rely on fossil fuels today. These include heating, industrial processes that require combustion and transport, especially heavy duty, maritime and air transport. Nuclear energy generates about 10 per cent of the world’s electricity, and after hydropower, it is the world’s second largest source of […]

The Use of Nuclear Power Beyond Generating Electricity: Non-Electric Applications

Kenya has made progress in implementing the recommendations of an earlier International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear infrastructure review mission, a team of IAEA and international experts said today. Kenya, which has Africa’s seventh-largest economy and a population of 52 million people, is considering the introduction of nuclear power to help meet its growing energy […]

Kenya’s IAEA INIR mission: Significant progress toward making the decision to introduce nuclear power

Aware of the links between sustainable economic development, widespread electrification and a reliable electricity supply, the government set up the National Electrification Scheme (NES) in 1989. This project was intended to improve the country’s electricity access rate (15–20% at the time) through the NES Master Plan, ultimately reaching an electricity access rate of 100% by 2020.13Overall, the […]

Powering Ghana’s Economic Development Through Nuclear Energy

Despite being derailed at multiple points on a long, uneven journey, recent developments around Ghana’s nuclear plans provide hope and lessons for the rest of Africa. Ghana has experienced recurring periods of unstable electricity supply in 1983, 1997-1998; 2003; 2006-2007 and again from 2011-2017. Domestic natural gas and oil reserves provide some relief, but projections indicate that these will […]

Nuclear Energy in Africa – Lessons from Ghana

BEIS-sponsored Nuclear Security Culture Programme in partnership with the African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) presents: Nuclear Security Workshop for Scientists, Technicians and Engineers Accra, Ghana 10-12 September 2019   The Nuclear Security Culture Consortium, sponsored by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is holding a workshop on nuclear […]

Nuclear Security Workshop for Scientists, Technicians and Engineers

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Feb. 1 that the United States would withdraw from its nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. Since the Obama administration, the U.S. has accused Russia of being in violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits the U.S. and Russia from developing a certain types of ballistic and cruise […]

A nuclear treaty between Russia and the US is falling apart – can it be saved?

The apparent erratic conduct of flight MH370 and the disabling of some communication equipment could be explained either by impaired pilot judgment typical of hypoxia (oxygen starvation) triggered by a slow cabin decompression, or because of the intervention of someone onboard with limited flight piloting experience who may have tried to replace the hypoxia incapacitated […]

Ghost Flights and the Case of MH370

As a follow-up of a historic international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons (Oslo, March 2013), the government of Mexico hosted a 2nd international conference from 13-14 February 2014 in Nuevo Vallarta, a residential resort community in the state of Nayarit, to build momentum for an ambitious diplomatic process that puts the catastrophic […]

NAYARIT CONFERENCE ON THE ‘HUMANITARIAN IMPACT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS’