Sudan, a country of approximately 40 million people, is seeking to increase its installed electricity capacity to support socio-economic development, particularly in the industrial, agricultural and mining sectors. The government has projected that demand for electricity will more than double to around 8500 MWe by 2031.

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.

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 […]

On 15 July 2009, the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone entered into force for 28 of the 53 African Union Member States and three of the five Nuclear Weapon States under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Five years later, a look back at actions and effort of stakeholders in […]

Egypt and Russia have agreed in principle on a program to build Egypt’s first nuclear power reactor and the leaders from both countries have witnessed the signing ceremony of, among other bilateral agreements, a project development agreement for a two-unit Russian power plant and desalination plant, reports the Egyptian state-run news agency MENA. Egypt’s President […]