Historically, many emerging economies have turned to nuclear power to meet energy deficits, and there is immense potential for nuclear to provide a clean baseload source of energy to meet Africa’s large energy deficit while also minimizing carbon emissions. Fossil fuel power plants like oil, coal, and gas not only pollute but must have a […]

Atoms for Africa: Is There a Future for Civil Nuclear Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

South Africa, a country beset by frequent power outages, will have to wait a little longer before pressing ahead with a highly contentious and very costly expansion of its aging nuclear power fleet. Exactly how long remains unclear. Last week was supposed to mark a key step forward in plans formulated back in 2010, but […]

South Africa’s contentious nuclear program faces yet another setback

Supporting Africa is a “high priority” for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation’s director general, Yukiya Amano, said yesterday in his opening address at the Nuclear Africa 2015 conference held in Pelindaba, South Africa. Nuclear power is a unique technology with unique requirements. It involves a long-term commitment and requires significant financial […]

Amano highlights Africa’s importance to IAEA

  Four prominent U.S. and Australia-based climate and Earth-system scientists released an open letter early November calling on world leaders and environmentalists to support the development and deployment of safer nuclear power plants as a practical means of addressing the global climate change problem. Read the full letter published by CNN The authors urge policy […]

Nuclear power plants could be a solution to global climate change, Scientists say