A nuclear power plant. [Photo/Pinterest]
Plans are underway to set up Kenya's first nuclear power plant by the year 2027.
According to the government, plans are already underway with construction expected to start within seven years.
Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (Kneb) chief officer Collins Juma on Tuesday said a prefeasibility study and siting work have already been done.
“The journey to have a nuclear plant started in 2009 and already we have done prefeasibility study and we have been doing the siting work for the last five years but we are hopeful that by 2024 construction works should begin, which will make us the second country in Africa after South Africa to set up a nuclear power plant,” said Mr Juma.
He was speaking during a meeting involving Kneb, the Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek), engineering students in the country and the public at Laico Regency in Nairobi on Tuesday.