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 […]

Africa is hungry for energy, and nuclear power could be part of the answer for an increasing number of countries,” says Mikhail Chudakov, deputy director general and head of the Department of Nuclear Energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an international organisation that promotes the peaceful use of nuclear technology.

In September 2013, Court of Appeal judges caused a stir when they refused to use their Elgon House offices in Nairobi for fear of radiation. They said that the communication masts near the posh Upper Hill offices emitted cancer-causing rays. To the layman the juducial officers came out as fussy. The Communications Commission of Kenya […]