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Post by kasuku on Aug 20, 2012 18:05:25 GMT 3
System Stores Wind and Solar Power in the Form of Natural Gas, to Fit Neatly Into Existing Infrastructure It's abundantly clear that we need to get off fossil fuels for various reasons (try Googling "oil spill"), but our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don't we just make fuels that work in our existing technology from renewable energy? A German-Austrian research collaboration has engineered a means to turn electricity from wind a solar resources into carbon-neutral natural gas that can be stored and deployed within existing natural gas infrastructure. The process hopes to create the storage capacity for renewable power sources that they so sorely lack. When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, excess power is siphoned off and used to split water through electrolysis. But rather than storing the hydrogen gas for use in fuel cells -- technology that, while potentially game-changing, is not widely employed -- a simple chemical reaction between hydrogen and carbon dioxide is used to generate H4, or a synthetic version of methane. That methane can be stored in existing natural gas facilities for use when renewable fuel sources are having an off day. Those supplies could also be used as a heat source during cold winters or burn in natural gas powered car engines. The synthetic methane does release carbon emissions into the air, but since the CO2 used to make the synthetic methane is pulled from the atmosphere rather than the ground, the process only returns the carbon it initially pulled out. And keep in mind this is envisioned as a backup storage system rather than a shift to a natural gas economy. On breezy, sunny days the synthetic methane stays in its tanks and the world turns on carbon-free power. The team has a demo plant up and running in Stuttgart, and a larger double-digit megawatt system is planned by 2012 www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/carbon-neutral-natural-gas-made-wind-and-solar-could-power-existing-infrastructures |
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 18:53:37 GMT 3
System Stores Wind and Solar Power in the Form of Natural Gas, to Fit Neatly Into Existing Infrastructure It's abundantly clear that we need to get off fossil fuels for various reasons (try Googling "oil spill"), but our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don't we just make fuels that work in our existing technology from renewable energy? A German-Austrian research collaboration has engineered a means to turn electricity from wind a solar resources into carbon-neutral natural gas that can be stored and deployed within existing natural gas infrastructure. The process hopes to create the storage capacity for renewable power sources that they so sorely lack. When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, excess power is siphoned off and used to split water through electrolysis. But rather than storing the hydrogen gas for use in fuel cells -- technology that, while potentially game-changing, is not widely employed -- a simple chemical reaction between hydrogen and carbon dioxide is used to generate H4, or a synthetic version of methane. That methane can be stored in existing natural gas facilities for use when renewable fuel sources are having an off day. Those supplies could also be used as a heat source during cold winters or burn in natural gas powered car engines. The synthetic methane does release carbon emissions into the air, but since the CO2 used to make the synthetic methane is pulled from the atmosphere rather than the ground, the process only returns the carbon it initially pulled out. And keep in mind this is envisioned as a backup storage system rather than a shift to a natural gas economy. On breezy, sunny days the synthetic methane stays in its tanks and the world turns on carbon-free power. The team has a demo plant up and running in Stuttgart, and a larger double-digit megawatt system is planned by 2012 www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/carbon-neutral-natural-gas-made-wind-and-solar-could-power-existing-infrastructureswe are trying to have low cost and good quality of electricity so as to encouraging new investments and stop constraining expansion of industries, which would make our commodities not expensive both locally and internationally and that is where coal, gas/oil and nucleasr comes in. what are the cost of putting up and eventually selling electricity from wind and solar? Kenya has had a feed in tariff policy since 2010 for fixed tariff not exceeding US Cents 12.0 per Kilowatt-hour of electrical energy from wind, solar, biomass and other renewables supplied in bulk to the grid operator at the interconnection point and no investor has taken that! www.erc.go.ke/erc/fitpolicy.pdfmeanwhile coal may be as low as 4, nuclear 3 and gas 7 US Cents per Kilowatt-hour of electrical energy. why do you want us to continue along the expensive path? who are you serving? www.google.co.ke/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CF8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentkenya.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_docman%26Itemid%3D%26task%3Ddoc_download%26gid%3D20&ei=GFoyUPqENKnW0QWHw4HoDA&usg=AFQjCNH5GaCvr-DD959SqMqmT9fP9iXjvQOtherwise as long as least cos power development plan churns out low numbers coal, oil/gas and nuclear will remain the best alternatives for base load supply as is also the case in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Do not dupe us with old technology tales when nuclear power plants are increasing in Asia and we can all see the spin offs.....Asia is overtaking Europe and America in development. www.nuclearfriendsfoundation.com/about-nuclear-energy.aspxcleantechnica.com/2012/06/14/a-safer-nuclear-future/There's no doubt about it; we need thorium based nuclear power to sustain civilization in the future. A point not made in the article is that all the thorium can be used as fuel as opposed to just 1% of uranium, the remaining 99% ending up as poisonous anti tank munitions or being buried as waste |
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 19:09:27 GMT 3
----- If Germany can make 20,000 megawatts of solar energy a day, Why wouldn’t Kenya build Nuclear power plants to get only 10,000 MW, when the dangers of such a plant is even uncontrollable in developed worlds who can’t control the unknown natural catastrophes. podp, the nuclear plants being discussed for Kenya won’t be a Kenyan industry, but a foreign one: Foreigners who will use our land to make huge money and leave the poison on our grounds without care as they don’t leave there. The development is still growing. Meanwhile you can produce Gas from Solar and wind energy, which can be stored and reproduced to power again in the night or when there is less wind and sun. There is no way we can ignore solar energy anymore. It’s time a lobby comes out to fight this Nuke nonsense. no country on earth has nuclear power for electricity generation run by foreigners! So who are the foreigners who want to built, own and operate nuclear power plants in Kenya? In Germany it is the Germans, in Japan the Japanese, in China the Chinese, in USA the Americans, in South Africa the South Africans etc who are running their own nuclear power plants. Why are you so sure that in Kenya it will be foreigners? And how & what should we do to stop that since it is unheard of? |
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 19:17:40 GMT 3
African nuclear energy commission holds 2nd meeting www.intersectinsight.com/2012/07/african-nuclear-energy-commission-holds-2nd-meeting/The African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) held its second ordinary session on 26 Jul at the African Union (AU) Headquarters, in Addis Ababa. The purpose of this session was to finalise and adopt its key charter documents to enable its full operation. The first ordinary session of AFCONE was held on 4 May 2011. The commission was established within the framework of the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (NWFZT), also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba. Its charter includes: Monitoring of compliance with nonproliferation obligations by state parties Nuclear and radiation safety and security Nuclear sciences and technology Partnership and technical cooperation The NWFZT which came into effect on 15 Jul 2009 establishes Africa as a nuclear weapons free zone. It authorises AFCONE to monitor compliance by the state parties with their obligations under the Treaty, as well as to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology in various fields. It is proposed that the AFCONE Executive Secretariat be established in Pretoria and the Government of South Africa has agreed to provide the required infrastructure for the office. |
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Post by kasuku on Aug 20, 2012 19:23:03 GMT 3
You should look at it just like when the Mobile phone started. Not everybody could afford it. Then abruptly everybody could own a mobile phone, where you can call your grandmother, while she in her shamba in the rural and you are in skyscraper office in New York. If someone had told you that 20 years ago, you would have told them they are crazy.
What about starting now on the industry of producing own photovoltaics and put up a think Tank of Scientist to research with the rest of the world in this and other unavoidable future technology?
The problem with Kenyans is sitting down complaining they need this and that, but somebody else must provide it for them. If you wait for the first world to bring you energy you will get Bones where meat has being completely curved from them.
The Nuclear Power plants whose makers cannot sell in the first world anymore, as the first world is moving to the future High Technology of making energy is looking for Idiots to milk them dry by killing their children..
An example how Kenya is incompetent in handling such a sophisticated and highly dangerous ticking Nuke bomb is this:
Compare Nairobi town of today and the one we Inherited from the British and had till sometime in the late 80’s. Till then we still had that beautiful green town under the sun. With beautiful landscapes and designed gardens. Then slowly we messed up that and look how Nairobi looks like today. It’s run by matatus and corrupted city council and police.
If our leaders are incompetent and ignorance enough to kill that beautiful Nairobi town how are they going to keep a ticking time bomb nuke power energy plant save?
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 19:38:02 GMT 3
What about starting now on the industry of producing own photovoltaics and put up a think Tank of Scientist to research with the rest of the world in this and other unavoidable future technology? The Nuclear Power plants whose makers cannot sell in the first If our leaders are incompetent and ignorance enough to kill that beautiful Nairobi town how are they going to keep a ticking time bomb nuke power energy plant save? The Department of Physics in conjunction with Solar Energy Research Group invites applicants for short course in solar photovoltaic installation maintenance and entrepreneurship which will take place at the Department of Physics, Chiromo Campus, University of Nairobi in August 2012 physics.uonbi.ac.ke/There has been collaboration with Germans too www.berlinnairobi.org/solarcells/document/solarcells010405.pdf |
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Post by OtishOtish on Aug 20, 2012 20:05:25 GMT 3
You should look at it just like when the Mobile phone started. Not everybody could afford it. Then abruptly everybody could own a mobile phone, where you can call your grandmother, while she in her shamba in the rural and you are in skyscraper office in New York. If someone had told you that 20 years ago, you would have told them they are crazy. What about starting now on the industry of producing own photovoltaics and put up a think Tank of Scientist to research with the rest of the world in this and other unavoidable future technology? The problem with Kenyans is sitting down complaining they need this and that, but somebody else must provide it for them. If you wait for the first world to bring you energy you will get Bones where meat has being completely curved from them. The Nuclear Power plants whose makers cannot sell in the first world anymore, as the first world is moving to the future High Technology of making energy is looking for Idiots to milk them dry by killing their children.. An example how Kenya is incompetent in handling such a sophisticated and highly dangerous ticking Nuke bomb is this: Compare Nairobi town of today and the one we Inherited from the British and had till sometime in the late 80’s. Till then we still had that beautiful green town under the sun. With beautiful landscapes and designed gardens. Then slowly we messed up that and look how Nairobi looks like today. It’s run by matatus and corrupted city council and police. If our leaders are incompetent and ignorance enough to kill that beautiful Nairobi town how are they going to keep a ticking time bomb nuke power energy plant save? You write the truth. But I'm beginning to wonder if anyone is serious about this, or if it's just an eating opportunity. After all, there is no better way to eat than to have a "feasibility" study: the only expected product is a report. On the other hand, we might just be fools enough to do it, because we think it will make us look "advanced". The state of Nairobi is interesting, considering that the council has always had a substantial City Planning Department. I think a major problem is that maintenance and long-term planning are words that do not seem to exist in our vocabulary. A road is built, and, instead of fixing small potholes and having running repairs, we wait until potholes are big enough to swallow a cow and occur every 100 metres; then we start with a new road. And the same approach applies to buildings, hospital equipment, railway ... you name it. The problem, though, is that it is not an approach that can be applied to an entire city and everything in it. By the way, what services does Nairobi City Council provide for its residents? I write this just having come from cycling at the outskirts of the city in which I live. There are no dwellings there, but plans have been made for when the city will expand: nice roads already exist, water and power lines have already been laid out, areas have been earmarked for a school, a shopping mall, etc. This is all for what is expected in 5 to10 years. That is what I call city planning. |
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Post by podp on Aug 23, 2012 12:47:02 GMT 3
You should look at it just like when the Mobile phone started. Not everybody could afford it. Then abruptly everybody could own a mobile phone, where you can call your grandmother, while she in her shamba in the rural and you are in skyscraper office in New York. If someone had told you that 20 years ago, you would have told them they are crazy. What about starting now on the industry of producing own photovoltaics and put up a think Tank of Scientist to research with the rest of the world in this and other unavoidable future technology? The problem with Kenyans is sitting down complaining they need this and that, but somebody else must provide it for them. If you wait for the first world to bring you energy you will get Bones where meat has being completely curved from them. The Nuclear Power plants whose makers cannot sell in the first world anymore, as the first world is moving to the future High Technology of making energy is looking for Idiots to milk them dry by killing their children.. An example how Kenya is incompetent in handling such a sophisticated and highly dangerous ticking Nuke bomb is this: Compare Nairobi town of today and the one we Inherited from the British and had till sometime in the late 80’s. Till then we still had that beautiful green town under the sun. With beautiful landscapes and designed gardens. Then slowly we messed up that and look how Nairobi looks like today. It’s run by matatus and corrupted city council and police. If our leaders are incompetent and ignorance enough to kill that beautiful Nairobi town how are they going to keep a ticking time bomb nuke power energy plant save? You write the truth. But I'm beginning to wonder if anyone is serious about this, or if it's just an eating opportunity. After all, there is no better way to eat than to have a "feasibility" study: the only expected product is a report. On the other hand, we might just be fools enough to do it, because we think it will make us look "advanced". The state of Nairobi is interesting, considering that the council has always had a substantial City Planning Department. I think a major problem is that maintenance and long-term planning are words that do not seem to exist in our vocabulary. A road is built, and, instead of fixing small potholes and having running repairs, we wait until potholes are big enough to swallow a cow and occur every 100 metres; then we start with a new road. And the same approach applies to buildings, hospital equipment, railway ... you name it. The problem, though, is that it is not an approach that can be applied to an entire city and everything in it. By the way, what services does Nairobi City Council provide for its residents? I write this just having come from cycling at the outskirts of the city in which I live. There are no dwellings there, but plans have been made for when the city will expand: nice roads already exist, water and power lines have already been laid out, areas have been earmarked for a school, a shopping mall, etc. This is all for what is expected in 5 to10 years. That is what I call city planning. On first red highlight why not kick in Freedom of Information Bill and Open Standards. Friends tell me that they done everything that needs to be done. Now it is stuck at CIC. Only you can push it out of there as a responsible citizen. Once enacted it will complement the Constitution and you can demand answers to your 'buts' and 'ifs'. On the second red highlight its true we have a Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030. We also have, say in the City Council of Nairobi a whole Department on Planning. What has been lacking is coherence between the plans and what is actual since the planners are almost always technocrats while the guys allocating themselves plots are elected Councillors who are least keen to follow the plans. Again the Constitution and Vision 2030 makes impunity a less attractive panacea than it used to be. |
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Post by podp on Aug 27, 2012 11:09:06 GMT 3
Is this fire fighting? Good policy guideline! Or ethnicity in disguise? At ths rate Coal fired power plants wll be an ethnic (in this case Kamba) affair! So when we have nuclear power plants along the coast it will be Digo, Giriama etc affair and if along lake Victoria a Dholuo affair! And if along Lake Turkana a Turkana affair! www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Kiraitu+appoints+team+to+hasten+coal+exploration/-/1006/1487666/-/12t47i2/-/index.html Kiraitu appoints team to hasten coal exploration In Summary •The team’s work will involve advocacy, education and analysis of matters pertaining to coal business and main-streaming the energy resource projects into community initiatives. •Earlier this month, a tender to award rights to mine coal in blocks A and B in the same basin attracted 18 companies with experience in coal exploration, coal-fired power generation, geological and prospecting know-how. •Two weeks ago, the High Court in Machakos issued an order restraining Energy permanent secretary Patrick Nyoike and Attorney-General Githu Muigai from signing any agreements with Fenxi Mining Industry Company that won a contract to mine in Kitui County’s Mui Basin. Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi has appointed a team to fast-track the development of coal resources in Mui Basin, Kitui County. In a Gazette notice on Friday, Mr Murungi appointed a 13-member committee to spearhead the coal development project in Blocks C and D for a term of three years. “For the purposes of realising Kenya’s Vision 2030 and to fast-track development of coal resources in order to enhance the production of affordable, reliable, commercial and industrial energy, (the minister) establishes a committee to be known as Mui Basin Coal Project Blocks C and D Liaison Committee,” the notice by Mr Murungi (right) reads in part. Its members are Mr Eric Kyalo Mutua, Mr Titus Kivaa Mbiti, Mr Paul Mumo Kisau, Mr Gideon Wathe Nzau, Ms Florence Mutawali Kitonga, Ms Patricia Kisio Kimanzi, Mr Joseph Muthi Nzuni, Ms Margaret Munyoki, Mr Solomon Kimanzi Kivoto, Ms Eunice Kelly Wambua, Mr David Kilonzi Maweu, Mr John Kimakio Mutia and Nzomo Mulatia. The team’s work will involve advocacy, education and analysis of matters pertaining to coal business and main-streaming the energy resource projects into community initiatives. Prospecting know-how Mining rights for coal in blocks C and D in Mui Basin have already been awarded to Chinese firm, Fenxi Industry Mining Group. Earlier this month, a tender to award rights to mine coal in blocks A and B in the same basin attracted 18 companies with experience in coal exploration, coal-fired power generation, geological and prospecting know-how. Before the tender award, each company is expected to show their ability to raise approximately Sh16.8 billion ($200 million) for the project as well as capital base and annual revenues of about Sh8.4 billion ($100 million). Share This Story Two weeks ago, the High Court in Machakos issued an order restraining Energy permanent secretary Patrick Nyoike and Attorney-General Githu Muigai from signing any agreements with Fenxi Mining Industry Company that won a contract to mine in Kitui County’s Mui Basin. |
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Post by podp on Aug 28, 2012 10:51:07 GMT 3
Firm extends bids for steam power www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/Firm+extends+bids+for+steam+power/-/1226/1488176/-/ld6j3uz/-/index.htmlThe Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has extended the closing date for two tenders for development of 800 megawatt steam each at Bogoria and Menengai fields due to the low number of bidders. GDC told Smart Company that the move was meant to allow bidders more time to “prepare” documents. It also allayed fears that the extension would result into delayed implementation of the steam project which is to be used in generation of geothermal power, considered cheaper than thermal sources and a long-term solution to frequent power shortages during droughts. “GDC received several requests for extension citing the need for more time for bidders to prepare bid documents. In order to allow for competition, GDC decided to extend the closing date. This extension is way within our timelines since the selection of preferred investors is expected to be completed in July 2013,” said Ms Ruth Musembi, GDC communications manager in a statement. The tender requires companies to demonstrate capability to mobilise a minimum of $200 million (Sh16.8 billion) to develop 200 megawatt of steam accompanied by letters from credible financiers. In addition, bidders are required to demonstrate experience in developing a project of at least 30 megawatts over the last 10 years. Attempts to contact the Public Procurement Oversight Authority to shed light on the extension were unsuccessful as neither calls nor emails to the authority were answered. GDC is seeking four equity investors to develop 800 megawatt steam at Menengai, in the second phase of development at the field. Those successful will be engaged on a joint venture with the government for development of 200 megawatt steam each with the latter assuming the risk for failed wells. According to the initial tender notice, GDC would contribute between 20 and 40 per cent of the required capital for each of the projects. “It is a public private partnership. Under this joint steam development project, GDC will obtain all land rights, permits and undertake construction of the road network, drilling water reticulation system and drilling exploration wells to confirm the presence of the resource,” said Ms Musembi. Both tenders have earned an additional two weeks with the new closure dates for Menengai phase II and Bogoria Silali block phase I being September 17 and September 21, 2012 respectively. To date, GDC has developed 354 megawatts of steam out of 59 wells at the Olkaria geothermal field, part of which is scheduled for use in the 280 megawatt geothermal plant being set up by State-owned power generation company KenGen. According to the company’s records, an additional seven wells have been drilled at the Menengai steam field with four that drilled yielding 25 megawatts of steam. |
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Post by einstein on Sept 1, 2012 3:53:20 GMT 3
More from the Toboa Ukweli folks:
More on the Rot in the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project
By the Toboa Ukweli team
The mismanagement of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project, with the controversial George Ochilo Ayako [/color] at the helm as the Executive Chairman threatens to scuttle the international goodwill that Kenya has enjoyed from such key partners as the International Atomic Energy Agency.[/b] By banishing David Otwoma , the nuclear scientist seconded by the Public Service Commission to serve as Secretary to the Nuclear Electricity Project’s board, Mr. Ayako has effectively undermined the credibility of the KNEP in its attempts at resource mobilization. Below is an excerpt from an email dispatched from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to officials of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project now working without the valuable and critical technical input from Mr. Otwoma: From: x.xxxxxx [mailtox.xxxxxx@iaea.org]
Sent: 22 June 2012 04:28
To: Boniface Kinyanjui; Winnie Ndubai
Subject: Concept for 2014-2015
Boniface&Winnie,
This is to inform you that what you presented as a concept for 2014/2015 cycle could not measure up of what is expected. There is now a window for you to rework on your conceptand submit the same by next week otherwise there will be nothing for Nuclear power. It maybe worth while to consider consulting David Otwoma as he is familiar on what is expected and has been a valuable local and international expert nuclear project formulations.
What was event from what you presented is that you did not understand how to link your current project with the next. In other words you are not sure what do to next after this project!!
Please urgently revert back to me if you are determined to do so.
x.xxxxxxx
And in a veiled reference to the continued marginalization of David Otwoma the same official sent the following email:
From: x.xxxxxx <x.xxxxxxi@iaea.org>
Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: Concept for 2014-15 cycle: KEN2005
To: bwwekesa@xxx.xx
Cc: bkkinyanjui@xxxx.xxx
To:
Boniface Wekesa Wanyama
P.O. BOX 30623-00100,
National Council for Science and Technology,
NAIROBI,Kenya.
Please if possible advise the formulators of the next CPN on Nuclear Energy accordingly as per our excellent discussions. We will be in Kenya and will welcome more deliberations with all, especially the Kenyan experts who are highly regarded here but unfortunately you ar under utilizing them.
Best regards,
x.xxxxxx
Our sources inform us that absence of Mr. Otwoma from the day to day running of the Nuclear Electricity Project seems to have had a negative financial and monetary impact on the activities of the project. Of the allocated 200 Million last financial year (July 2011 to June 2012) a whopping 50 Million Kenya Shillings was taken back by Treasury presumably because the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project was unable to utilize this amount that had already been budgeted for before it was allocated. As you can see from the attached Excel file, more than half of the funds allocated for travel and training was spent by the Executive Chairman, raising audit concerns as these disbursements were not per the performance contract signed by the Secretary. Mr. Otwoma’s focus in requesting the money for travel and training was to have young, technical competent Kenyans with professional aspirations benefit from such support with the projected goal that after ten years it is this generation of Kenyans who would be in charge when the country was on the cusp of rolling out its nuclear program for peaceful economic activities. Other related audit queries had to do with the large expenditure used to pay the 13 Committee Members when they purported to meet (with some of these meetings totally outside the mandate of that committee). In a case of grand coalition collusion in corrupt and unethical activities, the minister for energy who is from the PNU side seems to be in cahoots with the Executive Chairman, a former cabinet minister and an insider in the ODM party. Information at our disposal indicates that the minister appears to have handpicked 12 people from his back yard, including a potential in law to be placed under questionable circumstances within the Nuclear Electricity Project. A spouse of a senior manager at a state corporation under the aegis of the same ministry is among those irregularly deployed. The wife of an assistant minister who is a close ally to the minister in question is part of that tally giving rise to questions of probity within the new constitutional dispensation. We know all these individuals by their full names and we have chosen to with hold their identities for now along with other sordid personal details not yet in the public domain. Of the 40 opportunities given to Kenyans to study for six weeks at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University earlier this year, only 27 Kenyans eventually went as the Chairman was reported to be demanding kick backs. KIRDI coughed 1,500,000 kshs to send two people, Kenya Bureau of Standards a similar amount to send a man with his wife; Kenya Power too to sent the afore said spouse of the senior manager together with one technically competent person; Radiation Protection Board only sent one person while the officer at the other end feigned illness at last moment to keep the cash; KenGen paid but gave the Chairman to use at his discretion so he pocketed half and paid for a lady he is supposed to be very close to.He also rewarded the Human Resource Manager and the Financial manager for being obedient by letting them also go for the course even though the trip was meant for technical staff connected to nuclear electricity project. Watch this space! Stay tuned for more![/size] [/quote] Now, check these so called whistleblowers from 'the Toboa Ukweli team' and their connections to the Who-Is-Who on Jukwaa!! May you please, the reader, be the judge!! Little wonder, this thread is Podp's personal baby!! I hope this rings other bells!!! From: "otwomad" <Otwomad@...>
Date: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:13 pm
Subject: Re: A Case of Cowardly Online Censorship
OO wa Canada,
Take heart.
Today I will sleep in Trier (a town is Southern Germany) where Karl Marx was born (1818). The town had 9,000 inhabitants then. His parents house at Brückensrasse 10 has been transformed into a Museum. The main attraction in the residence is showing the stations in Marx's biography i.e. Trier, Bonn, Berlin, Brussels (in Belgium) and London (in UK) as well as the development of socialism and communism. The house courtyard and extensive garden demonstrates a comfortable family background. The top storey contains rare first editions and autographs, among them two volumes of poetry dedicated to his father.
I walked from the house where he grew up across Porta Nigra on his way to school along Simeonstrasse to the old Latin school. Where he was confirmed was variously remodeled and expanded Gothic Franciscan Church of the holy Trinity (13th century), Jesuit Church (after 1561), seat of the Temple of Reason (after 1794), Protestant Church (after 1815), Catholic (1857). Next door is the old Jesuit college/Latin school (Renaissance library reading room from 1615; Karl Marx went to school here) and part of the old university (1775); today the comples houses part of the theological seminary, the seminary library and
diocese archives.
He cheated in his maths exam to make it to university! So dubbing as we called it when we were at UoN started long time ago.
I also took a stroll to the house of his girl friend and later wife, Jenny von Westphalen. Also to the former hotel where in 1863, he stayed for the last time in Trier.
Maybe with Rev and +Fr Awr praying I can prey an ex-relative of Marx.
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Post by kasuku on Sept 1, 2012 16:31:23 GMT 3
Eichner
Thanks so much for this. I did wonder very much why Podp was always posting straight away to cover up my arguments against the nuke-bomb energy plant in Kenya, sometimes with completely irrelevant articles.
And thanks to the administrator for taking parts by posting his "Whistleblower" stuff too in support for his "Comrade". Kumbe wananienjoy the all-time.
So now you can dump the thread full of your praise of the nuke-bomb and maybe it might help you get back to your thick paycheck which you know very well you will just be eating tax-payers money as long as you guys still pretend to be doing feasibility study.
Am very disappointed and end my part in this thread (and will terminate my membership too) in which i took so dear to me and have put a lot of time and work on it!
Jukwaa iko na wenyewe
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Post by reporter911 on Sept 1, 2012 17:17:44 GMT 3
Eichner Thanks so much for this. I did wonder very much why Podp was always posting straight away to cover up my arguments against the nuke-bomb energy plant in Kenya, sometimes with completely irrelevant articles. And thanks to the administrator for taking parts by posting his "Whistleblower" stuff too in support for his "Comrade". Kumbe wananienjoy the all-time. So now you can dump the thread full of your praise of the nuke-bomb and maybe it might help you get back to your thick paycheck which you know very well you will just be eating tax-payers money as long as you guys still pretend to be doing feasibility study. Am very disappointed and end my part in this thread (and will terminate my membership too) in which i took so dear to me and have put a lot of time and work on it! Jukwaa iko na wenyewe Kasuku then you have allowed the mis-information propagandist to win, that is what they wanted aim is to reduce the voices of reason and truth on Jukwaa in order for them to continue their agenda, If like minded Kenyans gave up without saying no to corruption, no to impunity, the fight for our Human right then the New Constitution could have never been enacted.. I say stick around and face them heads-on.. you will beat them in the end.. the truth can never be replaced with propaganda and lies  |
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Post by podp on Sept 2, 2012 16:13:08 GMT 3
More from the Toboa Ukweli folks:
More on the Rot in the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project
By the Toboa Ukweli team
The mismanagement of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project, with the controversial George Ochilo Ayako [/color] at the helm as the Executive Chairman threatens to scuttle the international goodwill that Kenya has enjoyed from such key partners as the International Atomic Energy Agency.[/b] By banishing David Otwoma , the nuclear scientist seconded by the Public Service Commission to serve as Secretary to the Nuclear Electricity Project’s board, Mr. Ayako has effectively undermined the credibility of the KNEP in its attempts at resource mobilization. Below is an excerpt from an email dispatched from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to officials of the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project now working without the valuable and critical technical input from Mr. Otwoma: From: x.xxxxxx [mailtox.xxxxxx@iaea.org]
Sent: 22 June 2012 04:28
To: Boniface Kinyanjui; Winnie Ndubai
Subject: Concept for 2014-2015
Boniface&Winnie,
This is to inform you that what you presented as a concept for 2014/2015 cycle could not measure up of what is expected. There is now a window for you to rework on your conceptand submit the same by next week otherwise there will be nothing for Nuclear power. It maybe worth while to consider consulting David Otwoma as he is familiar on what is expected and has been a valuable local and international expert nuclear project formulations.
What was event from what you presented is that you did not understand how to link your current project with the next. In other words you are not sure what do to next after this project!!
Please urgently revert back to me if you are determined to do so.
x.xxxxxxx
And in a veiled reference to the continued marginalization of David Otwoma the same official sent the following email:
From: x.xxxxxx <x.xxxxxxi@iaea.org>
Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: Concept for 2014-15 cycle: KEN2005
To: bwwekesa@xxx.xx
Cc: bkkinyanjui@xxxx.xxx
To:
Boniface Wekesa Wanyama
P.O. BOX 30623-00100,
National Council for Science and Technology,
NAIROBI,Kenya.
Please if possible advise the formulators of the next CPN on Nuclear Energy accordingly as per our excellent discussions. We will be in Kenya and will welcome more deliberations with all, especially the Kenyan experts who are highly regarded here but unfortunately you ar under utilizing them.
Best regards,
x.xxxxxx
Our sources inform us that absence of Mr. Otwoma from the day to day running of the Nuclear Electricity Project seems to have had a negative financial and monetary impact on the activities of the project. Of the allocated 200 Million last financial year (July 2011 to June 2012) a whopping 50 Million Kenya Shillings was taken back by Treasury presumably because the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Project was unable to utilize this amount that had already been budgeted for before it was allocated. As you can see from the attached Excel file, more than half of the funds allocated for travel and training was spent by the Executive Chairman, raising audit concerns as these disbursements were not per the performance contract signed by the Secretary. Mr. Otwoma’s focus in requesting the money for travel and training was to have young, technical competent Kenyans with professional aspirations benefit from such support with the projected goal that after ten years it is this generation of Kenyans who would be in charge when the country was on the cusp of rolling out its nuclear program for peaceful economic activities. Other related audit queries had to do with the large expenditure used to pay the 13 Committee Members when they purported to meet (with some of these meetings totally outside the mandate of that committee). In a case of grand coalition collusion in corrupt and unethical activities, the minister for energy who is from the PNU side seems to be in cahoots with the Executive Chairman, a former cabinet minister and an insider in the ODM party. Information at our disposal indicates that the minister appears to have handpicked 12 people from his back yard, including a potential in law to be placed under questionable circumstances within the Nuclear Electricity Project. A spouse of a senior manager at a state corporation under the aegis of the same ministry is among those irregularly deployed. The wife of an assistant minister who is a close ally to the minister in question is part of that tally giving rise to questions of probity within the new constitutional dispensation. We know all these individuals by their full names and we have chosen to with hold their identities for now along with other sordid personal details not yet in the public domain. Of the 40 opportunities given to Kenyans to study for six weeks at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University earlier this year, only 27 Kenyans eventually went as the Chairman was reported to be demanding kick backs. KIRDI coughed 1,500,000 kshs to send two people, Kenya Bureau of Standards a similar amount to send a man with his wife; Kenya Power too to sent the afore said spouse of the senior manager together with one technically competent person; Radiation Protection Board only sent one person while the officer at the other end feigned illness at last moment to keep the cash; KenGen paid but gave the Chairman to use at his discretion so he pocketed half and paid for a lady he is supposed to be very close to.He also rewarded the Human Resource Manager and the Financial manager for being obedient by letting them also go for the course even though the trip was meant for technical staff connected to nuclear electricity project. Watch this space! Stay tuned for more![/size] [/quote] Now, check these so called whistleblowers from 'the Toboa Ukweli team' and their connections to the Who-Is-Who on Jukwaa!! May you please, the reader, be the judge!! Little wonder, this thread is Podp's personal baby!! I hope this rings other bells!!! From: "otwomad" <Otwomad@...>
Date: Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:13 pm
Subject: Re: A Case of Cowardly Online Censorship
OO wa Canada,
Take heart.
Today I will sleep in Trier (a town is Southern Germany) where Karl Marx was born (1818). The town had 9,000 inhabitants then. His parents house at Brückensrasse 10 has been transformed into a Museum. The main attraction in the residence is showing the stations in Marx's biography i.e. Trier, Bonn, Berlin, Brussels (in Belgium) and London (in UK) as well as the development of socialism and communism. The house courtyard and extensive garden demonstrates a comfortable family background. The top storey contains rare first editions and autographs, among them two volumes of poetry dedicated to his father.
I walked from the house where he grew up across Porta Nigra on his way to school along Simeonstrasse to the old Latin school. Where he was confirmed was variously remodeled and expanded Gothic Franciscan Church of the holy Trinity (13th century), Jesuit Church (after 1561), seat of the Temple of Reason (after 1794), Protestant Church (after 1815), Catholic (1857). Next door is the old Jesuit college/Latin school (Renaissance library reading room from 1615; Karl Marx went to school here) and part of the old university (1775); today the comples houses part of the theological seminary, the seminary library and
diocese archives.
He cheated in his maths exam to make it to university! So dubbing as we called it when we were at UoN started long time ago.
I also took a stroll to the house of his girl friend and later wife, Jenny von Westphalen. Also to the former hotel where in 1863, he stayed for the last time in Trier.
Maybe with Rev and +Fr Awr praying I can prey an ex-relative of Marx.
Otwoma Jeff, Podp,No, no, no! Not so fast guys. You still gotta tell us exactly what it is that MM wrote about the PM that made you see the light! One liners or two paragraphs like yours above is/are not informative at all. We are talking about a tome with over 500 pages here. Surely, you got more to tell us than your current performance above. Remember, you are still on Jukwaa!! Some of us have not read the book and so we need objective analysis. einstein, in red above you wanted an objective analysis Podp,If this was directed at me, then I say thank you very much. You have saved me a lot of time and hence money! And if you think I am a Raila-damu, then by the same token you are Anti-Raila and a Miguna Miguna-damu. How do you like that? Please advise your deity Miguna Miguna next time to pen a factual tome and not a he-said-she-said stuff like he did in Peeling Back His Own Mask. O.k? now you are doing a Hegelian twist! Just so that we are on the same page as regards philosophy. Let me psychoanalyze you for fun. Just to humor myself. We start with a proposal. Hegel said ‘we find in consciousness itself a fundamental hostility towards every other consciousness’ The subject can be posed only in being opposed. You are setting yourself up as the Essential, as opposed to the Other (me), the Inessential, the Object. But the Other (me) consciousness, the other ego, sets up a reciprocal claim! That is your aim which sorry Einstein I will not grant you. You cannot be my Master nor am I willing to be your Slave. I know that a Master and Slave, also, are united by a reciprocal need, in this case economic, which does not liberate the slave. And in your little world RAO and MM are united by a reciprocal need! One to be PORK and the Other to prevent One being PORK. A simplistic world indeed or you find that complex? I assume you are able to follow. We ratchet this up a note higher. Let me politely decline to be the Other i.e. I refuse to be a party to the deal of saying if you are RAO damu I need to be MM damu or PNU damu or even to make you an ally ODM damu. But remember the deity (RAO) has said MM is a Mad Man not Miguna Miguna in the kitendawili. The category of the Other is as primordial as consciousness itself. To you its RAO-MM so by extension you would have Uranus-Zeus (opposing gods in Greek mythology), Sun-Moon (One is a Star the Other just a satellite of any planet rotating around the Star), and Day-Night than it was in the contrasts between Good (RAO in your simplistic world) and Evil (MM in your real and imaginary i.e. dreams worlds), lucky and unlucky auspices, right and left, God (your hope of joining RAO when he goes to Nineveh i.e. becomes PORK) and Lucifer (MM's father and mother and you hope he joined them now). Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought. So be proud you are not the Other but the One. Now that you are the One and since MM is not standing to be PORK why waste your valuable time and energy on a non starter? Just listen to your deity (RAO) and we are home and dry with this debate closed. My conclusion as I humor myself for the new week is 'denial does not represent liberation for those concerned, but rather a flight from reality'. Have a safe flight.[/quote] jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=7183&page=13 |
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Post by podp on Sept 2, 2012 16:22:25 GMT 3
Eichner Thanks so much for this. I did wonder very much why Podp was always posting straight away to cover up my arguments against the nuke-bomb energy plant in Kenya, sometimes with completely irrelevant articles. And thanks to the administrator for taking parts by posting his "Whistleblower" stuff too in support for his "Comrade". Kumbe wananienjoy the all-time. So now you can dump the thread full of your praise of the nuke-bomb and maybe it might help you get back to your thick paycheck which you know very well you will just be eating tax-payers money as long as you guys still pretend to be doing feasibility study. Am very disappointed and end my part in this thread (and will terminate my membership too) in which i took so dear to me and have put a lot of time and work on it! Jukwaa iko na wenyewe Kasuku then you have allowed the mis-information propagandist to win, that is what they wanted aim is to reduce the voices of reason and truth on Jukwaa in order for them to continue their agenda, If like minded Kenyans gave up without saying no to corruption, no to impunity, the fight for our Human right then the New Constitution could have never been enacted.. I say stick around and face them heads-on.. you will beat them in the end.. the truth can never be replaced with propaganda and lies red highlight I fully agree with you and invite all to take a stroll at Exposing the invisible www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/nick_veasey_exposing_the_invisible_1.html |
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Nuclear energy project to get Slovakia help
By MUTHOKI MUMO mumumo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Tuesday, November 20 2012 at 19:55
Kenya is turning to Eastern European countries in a bid to fast-track production of nuclear energy.
The country hopes to generate at least a fifth of its power needs, estimated at 15,000 megawatts, from nuclear energy by 2030.
To achieve this, Kenya has turned to the government of Slovakia, which on Tuesday said the two countries would conclude a nuclear education and technology transfer pact before the end of this year.
Besides providing expert advice, the Slovaks will from next year offer scholarships to Kenyans wishing to pursue nuclear technology studies in the European nation.
“There have been extensive consultations among experts from both countries. We will offer scholarships to students who will, hopefully, become future experts, working in Kenya’s nuclear plants,” said Slovakia’s State secretary for Foreign affairs, Mr Peter Burian.
Slovakia relies on its four nuclear reactors for more than 55 per cent of total electricity generation.
Meanwhile, Kenya’s Sh250 billion nuclear electricity project is still in its infancy, with the government hoping that it will be completed by 2022.
Nuclear power is supposed to help Kenya bridge its energy deficit. The country generates 1,500 megawatts of power, more than half of which is hydropower.
Low power generation has been a disincentive for some production firms hoping to set up base in Kenya. In comparison, South Africa produces 40,000 megawatts of power a year.
The nuclear electricity project has faced several setbacks, with concerns that Kenya might not be able to raise the funds needed to see it to completion.
In February, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a report that urged the country to forsake expensive nuclear energy dream in favour of more affordable renewable energy. The country is also yet to develop the necessary human resources to sustainably run a nuclear power plant.
According to Mr Burian, officials from Kenya’s Nuclear Electricity Project Committee, including chairman Ochilo Ayacko, have over the past one year toured technical universities in the European nation to learn from best practices.
He was speaking during a press briefing on the ongoing Kenya-Slovakia Development Cooperation Forum in Nairobi. A delegation of Slovaks from various sectors, including infrastructure and technology, have since Monday been interacting with Kenyan government officials with the aim of deepening economic links.
However, closer relations in tourism seem to be slow, with a planned charter plane from Slovakia that was supposed to land in Nairobi in June having been cancelled repeatedly as passengers shied away from Kenya.
The strategy to go after tourism markets in Slovakia and other Eastern European countries was informed by slackening inflows from traditional markets in Western Europe.www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Nuclear-energy-project-to-get-Slovakia-help/-/1006/1625346/-/14cgpvy/-/index.html
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makray • 18 hours ago
We come up with some horrendous ideas, but this one has to be up there. We can't even run our grid smoothly, can't even maintain a police helicopter fleet competently. This would surely be mass suicide. I'm clearly not alone in thinking this given the commentary so far on this thread. There's considerable global enthusiasm to move away from nuclear now. We should put more emphasis on renewable energy.
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Risasi makray • 17 hours ago
This is not a horrendous idea and your apprehension is not based on fact. Granted, the effects of a nuclear incident are catastrophic, but globally since nuclear power started being used, there have been only 3 accidents - 3 Mile Island (US) 1979; Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima in 2011, Note the gap between 86 and 2011, and even then Japan had not anticipated a tsunami. Also considering the magnitude of the tsunami, the leakage was quite small and the accident could have been worse.
Renewable energy is the biggest lie of the 21st Century. Removing geothermal (5000MW) which will not be enough, hydro is almost maxxed out, leaving solar and wind. The efficiencieis of these are really subjective viz a viz the cost.
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Njĩmbĩrĩ Karogingunũ Risasi • 13 hours ago
1997, 1999 - Tokaimura, Japan; 2004 - Mihama nuclear plant, Japan & about 10 other accidents in between the period you mentioned. If we're experiencing real difficulties handling Turkana cattle rustlers & Al Shabab criminals in Kenya, how about real terrorists determined to cause a catastrophe.
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BadaLingam Risasi • 13 hours ago
All the points you are raising are valid, my main concern is how will we handle the nuclear waste. Even the big boys I hear are having trouble managing the waste from nuclear
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Joe Mwangi BadaLingam • 9 hours ago
Please check my above comment.
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makray Risasi • 14 hours ago
Look, the facts, statistics and benefits notwithstanding, how much faith do you have in this country's (I emphasize - THIS country's) authorities competently running a nuclear plant?
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Richardiba makray • 11 hours ago
Definitely true! There are certainly safer alternatives that can be developed much quicker. We haven't even examined something as simple as co-generation (from even waste incinerators) which can be fed back into the grid. And we can certainly build humongous in the North Eastern Province to tap into that vast resource. Last but not least, until we fully max out our capability on geothermal energy all these dreams about nuclear energy are just flights of whimsy
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Robert Kemboi • a day ago
have we exhausted the geothermal sources?
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scanfish • a day ago
Kenya should completely forget about nuclear power and instead invest in renewable energy such as Geothermal, wind, solar and tidal waves. Like all other projects, the key is always maintenance and given our poor record in that respect, we would soon have a massive disaster on our hands going by the atrocious management record and corruption of Kenyan parastatals. Kenya Power and KenGen are very poor service providers already, how will the Nuclear power authority do any better? It is total nonsense going nuclear and my suspicion is that this project is just a way to siphon off public funds, and it must be abandoned. Geothermal power alone has the capacity to generate 7000MW per year, the same as the nuclear power plant! What is the urgency then with this project?
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muriithi scanfish • 21 hours ago
Why don't we also dig up all roads since road accidents kill thousands and maim many more.
We should go back to walking as our great grand parents used to do.
This will not only reduce diabetes and obesity but will cut road accidents to zero.
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Wencx muriithi • 12 hours ago
You will still die on the road due to exhaustion, you will need to change your shoes after every three weeks, you might get eaten by strange animals along the way, all this and others will be blamed on the roads. I suppose you're like kind of over100yrs! is that right?
Funny
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Patrick G. Mutuku • 21 hours ago
Renewable energy is the way for Kenya, we have more than enough solar, wind, geothermal etc. Lets not play with fire. We at least need another 100 yrs before we can consider ourselves responsible enough in terms of discipline and expertise to handle nuclear production. We are not yet there, so lets not be overly ambitious.
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dibek • a day ago
If kenya produces 1500MW and our target is 1500MW by 2022/2030 haven't we already achieved that? Poor journalism again by nation.
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Gaichingae dibek • 16 hours ago
here goes another one "Nuclear power is supposed to help Kenya bridge its energy deficit. The country generates 1,500 megawatts of power, more than half of which is hydropower" you dint get!
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Gaichingae dibek • 16 hours ago
"The country hopes to generate at least a fifth of its power needs, estimated at 15,000 megawatts, from nuclear energy by 2030"
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Gideons • 21 hours ago
Nuclear energy requires the highest order of discipline and expertise
accessible to man. Any slight error will lead to non-treatable and
non-reversible consequences. If these has happened to great developed
countries with far superior means of curbing the damage of Nuclear
materials to no avail; then we Kenyans & in fact EAC members have a
reason to be afraid and "very afraid indeed." It's on record that it took the Nairobi City Fire Brigade not less than 45min to arrive at the then burning Nakumatt Down Town & not to put out fire remember;
then I Can't help being scared at a mere mention of Nuclear energy. This
is a serious issue that needs a referendum not only of the Kenyan
People but also the EAC community at large. Because the consequences of
any mishandling of the Nuclear reactor will definitely affect them.
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scanfish Gideons • 19 hours ago
Exactly. Commissioning a nuclear power plant in Kenya is like giving a troop of drunk monkeys a loaded machine gun. Kenyans should think very, very hard about accepting this overambitious project. We need practical renewable energy solutions that are cheaper, not expensive experiments just for the prestige.
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coastman • 14 hours ago
This is extremely encouraging. Until now, we have had to import sewing needles, because we do not produce them. Now we are able to set up a nuclear plant, in a zone prone to earthquakes. What wonderful progress, almost a dream!
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Joe 1 Pack • 16 hours ago
Diversify our energy sources and let outages be something of the past. Coal in Ukambani can also be explored.
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Risasi Joe 1 Pack • 13 hours ago
Coal is more environmentally disastrous than nuclear. Apart from it being very dirty; add the perils and pitfalls of underground mining (how many times have we seen trapped coal miners even in the West?); add the fact that global warming as a result of coal burning is wrecking the globe? Nuclear has risks, but....could it be safer than coal?
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Aswad Uhuru • 18 hours ago
nuclear waste is impossible to dispose of safely for a start,secondly,the efficiency is not worth the pollution..there has been enough accidents that we still see the effects of more than twenty years later,,cheynobyl ussr,three mile island u.s.a and most recently in japan. there is still children being born with birth defects in ukraine and belarus and even today Thousands of those who were children and adolescents at the time of the accident have developed thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radioactive iodine. The majority of those cancers have been treated successfully. Among workers who were exposed to higher doses of radiation this exposure has contributed to an increase in the number of cases of certain types of leukaemia and solid cancers, and possibly of cardiovascular diseases and cataracts.twenty years later The zone is unsuitable for residential or agricultural purposes!and that is only a bit of what is known...
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disqus_Y85AqfuIUQ • 18 hours ago
Here are the fact guys, First, nuclear energy is not achieved in a day
in fact it takes at least 7 to 10 years to realize this bearing in mind
we are starting from scratch. We need qualified personnel to handle the
plant, alot of resources ( $US 3.5 ) among many other things.But look at
it this way. By 2030 our energy need will have soared to 15000 MW. The
plans are to generate 5000MW from geothermal along the rift valley, 4000
from coal at the coast 2000 MW from hydro, 1500 from wind and solar
wind. This definitely leaves us with a deficit of around 3500 MW which
only leaves us with one option NUCLEAR. But remember if in the course of
this gas reserves are discovered in large and commercially viable
quantities, it will be a game changer. Because the NUCLEAR production
will be revised.
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Alexander Musyoka • 19 hours ago
Is the persuit of nucleair energie informed by necessity or politicus? And while it seems admiralen to join the big boys club, immediate indicators are that its counterproductive to do so. Munch developer countries i.e.germany, netherlands and Japan are ether in THE process of phasing it out and/or have allready abolished it. Als à nation, we have the opportunity to build à green economy that fits info our image and future needs. Schotland enery policy is the way to go. Imagine à policy where incentives are geven to households to install solar penale and THE output fed to the national grid with households Earring for every kilowat less used up power hence supplimenting current power needs. There are à thusand good practices out there unless we are only interesten in annoteer charnoby.
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gidz • 19 hours ago
Guys lets look at future long term
and not just today.
Nuclear energy needs a long term planning/Investment. This
includes planning, financing, security, approvals etc etc. By 2030 it’s
projected that Kenya may required 15,000 megawatts of power. Considering we
fully exploit geothermal, wind and solar, there will still be a deficit. In
order to cover the deficit plans have to start early and make sure that by the
time the project is mature the energy produced will be covering the deficit
that will be there.
If we sit back and wait until 2030 we will be very irresponsible.
I understand based on projects ongoing, that all efforts are ongoing to make
sure that renewable energies are exploited.
The only question I have is how affordable will the
energy be? At the moment the cost of energy is very high.
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mwandawida • a day ago
Kenya indeed needs to have a source of constant power supply in order to attract multinational manufacturing companies. But with the vast gas discoveries by our southern neighbors, more focus ought to be on gas just like Tanzania is already doing, and coal.
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Rofi • a day ago
I would like us to first and foremost master the art of driving on our roads with some decorum. I don't believe that there is enough discipline available amongst would be managers of the power station to run the plant efficiently. It might just end up something worse that the disaster in Russia. Why are turning to an eastern European country? Because countries like France and the UK would not dream of letting anybody in Kenya tinker with anything nuclear, that's why.
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kanjoro • a day ago
A sweet dream or is it Vision 2022?
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Post by podp on Nov 23, 2012 13:10:47 GMT 3
"It is with unprecedented pleasure to inform all staff that the Gazette Notice went through and we are now a Board-Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board. I take this opportunity to thank everyone for making it happen." 28 comments • 24 reactions Leave a message... Discussion Community makray • 18 hours ago We come up with some horrendous ideas, but this one has to be up there. We can't even run our grid smoothly, can't even maintain a police helicopter fleet competently. This would surely be mass suicide. I'm clearly not alone in thinking this given the commentary so far on this thread. There's considerable global enthusiasm to move away from nuclear now. We should put more emphasis on renewable energy. 4 •Reply•Share › Risasi makray • 17 hours ago This is not a horrendous idea and your apprehension is not based on fact. Granted, the effects of a nuclear incident are catastrophic, but globally since nuclear power started being used, there have been only 3 accidents - 3 Mile Island (US) 1979; Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima in 2011, Note the gap between 86 and 2011, and even then Japan had not anticipated a tsunami. Also considering the magnitude of the tsunami, the leakage was quite small and the accident could have been worse. Renewable energy is the biggest lie of the 21st Century. Removing geothermal (5000MW) which will not be enough, hydro is almost maxxed out, leaving solar and wind. The efficiencieis of these are really subjective viz a viz the cost. 3 •Reply•Share › Njĩmbĩrĩ Karogingunũ Risasi • 13 hours ago 1997, 1999 - Tokaimura, Japan; 2004 - Mihama nuclear plant, Japan & about 10 other accidents in between the period you mentioned. If we're experiencing real difficulties handling Turkana cattle rustlers & Al Shabab criminals in Kenya, how about real terrorists determined to cause a catastrophe. 0 •Reply•Share › BadaLingam Risasi • 13 hours ago All the points you are raising are valid, my main concern is how will we handle the nuclear waste. Even the big boys I hear are having trouble managing the waste from nuclear 0 •Reply•Share › Joe Mwangi BadaLingam • 9 hours ago Please check my above comment. 0 •Reply•Share › makray Risasi • 14 hours ago Look, the facts, statistics and benefits notwithstanding, how much faith do you have in this country's (I emphasize - THIS country's) authorities competently running a nuclear plant? 0 •Reply•Share › Richardiba makray • 11 hours ago Definitely true! There are certainly safer alternatives that can be developed much quicker. We haven't even examined something as simple as co-generation (from even waste incinerators) which can be fed back into the grid. And we can certainly build humongous in the North Eastern Province to tap into that vast resource. Last but not least, until we fully max out our capability on geothermal energy all these dreams about nuclear energy are just flights of whimsy 0 •Reply•Share › Robert Kemboi • a day ago have we exhausted the geothermal sources? 2 •Reply•Share › scanfish • a day ago Kenya should completely forget about nuclear power and instead invest in renewable energy such as Geothermal, wind, solar and tidal waves. Like all other projects, the key is always maintenance and given our poor record in that respect, we would soon have a massive disaster on our hands going by the atrocious management record and corruption of Kenyan parastatals. Kenya Power and KenGen are very poor service providers already, how will the Nuclear power authority do any better? It is total nonsense going nuclear and my suspicion is that this project is just a way to siphon off public funds, and it must be abandoned. Geothermal power alone has the capacity to generate 7000MW per year, the same as the nuclear power plant! What is the urgency then with this project? 3 1 •Reply•Share › muriithi scanfish • 21 hours ago Why don't we also dig up all roads since road accidents kill thousands and maim many more. We should go back to walking as our great grand parents used to do. This will not only reduce diabetes and obesity but will cut road accidents to zero. 1 1 •Reply•Share › Wencx muriithi • 12 hours ago You will still die on the road due to exhaustion, you will need to change your shoes after every three weeks, you might get eaten by strange animals along the way, all this and others will be blamed on the roads. I suppose you're like kind of over100yrs! is that right? Funny 0 •Reply•Share › Patrick G. Mutuku • 21 hours ago Renewable energy is the way for Kenya, we have more than enough solar, wind, geothermal etc. Lets not play with fire. We at least need another 100 yrs before we can consider ourselves responsible enough in terms of discipline and expertise to handle nuclear production. We are not yet there, so lets not be overly ambitious. 2 1 •Reply•Share › dibek • a day ago If kenya produces 1500MW and our target is 1500MW by 2022/2030 haven't we already achieved that? Poor journalism again by nation. 1 •Reply•Share › Gaichingae dibek • 16 hours ago here goes another one "Nuclear power is supposed to help Kenya bridge its energy deficit. The country generates 1,500 megawatts of power, more than half of which is hydropower" you dint get! 0 •Reply•Share › Gaichingae dibek • 16 hours ago "The country hopes to generate at least a fifth of its power needs, estimated at 15,000 megawatts, from nuclear energy by 2030" 0 •Reply•Share › Gideons • 21 hours ago Nuclear energy requires the highest order of discipline and expertise accessible to man. Any slight error will lead to non-treatable and non-reversible consequences. If these has happened to great developed countries with far superior means of curbing the damage of Nuclear materials to no avail; then we Kenyans & in fact EAC members have a reason to be afraid and "very afraid indeed." It's on record that it took the Nairobi City Fire Brigade not less than 45min to arrive at the then burning Nakumatt Down Town & not to put out fire remember; then I Can't help being scared at a mere mention of Nuclear energy. This is a serious issue that needs a referendum not only of the Kenyan People but also the EAC community at large. Because the consequences of any mishandling of the Nuclear reactor will definitely affect them. 1 1 •Reply•Share › scanfish Gideons • 19 hours ago Exactly. Commissioning a nuclear power plant in Kenya is like giving a troop of drunk monkeys a loaded machine gun. Kenyans should think very, very hard about accepting this overambitious project. We need practical renewable energy solutions that are cheaper, not expensive experiments just for the prestige. 0 •Reply•Share › coastman • 14 hours ago This is extremely encouraging. Until now, we have had to import sewing needles, because we do not produce them. Now we are able to set up a nuclear plant, in a zone prone to earthquakes. What wonderful progress, almost a dream! 0 •Reply•Share › Joe 1 Pack • 16 hours ago Diversify our energy sources and let outages be something of the past. Coal in Ukambani can also be explored. 0 •Reply•Share › Risasi Joe 1 Pack • 13 hours ago Coal is more environmentally disastrous than nuclear. Apart from it being very dirty; add the perils and pitfalls of underground mining (how many times have we seen trapped coal miners even in the West?); add the fact that global warming as a result of coal burning is wrecking the globe? Nuclear has risks, but....could it be safer than coal? 1 •Reply•Share › Aswad Uhuru • 18 hours ago nuclear waste is impossible to dispose of safely for a start,secondly,the efficiency is not worth the pollution..there has been enough accidents that we still see the effects of more than twenty years later,,cheynobyl ussr,three mile island u.s.a and most recently in japan. there is still children being born with birth defects in ukraine and belarus and even today Thousands of those who were children and adolescents at the time of the accident have developed thyroid cancer as a result of exposure to radioactive iodine. The majority of those cancers have been treated successfully. Among workers who were exposed to higher doses of radiation this exposure has contributed to an increase in the number of cases of certain types of leukaemia and solid cancers, and possibly of cardiovascular diseases and cataracts.twenty years later The zone is unsuitable for residential or agricultural purposes!and that is only a bit of what is known... 0 •Reply•Share › disqus_Y85AqfuIUQ • 18 hours ago Here are the fact guys, First, nuclear energy is not achieved in a day in fact it takes at least 7 to 10 years to realize this bearing in mind we are starting from scratch. We need qualified personnel to handle the plant, alot of resources ( $US 3.5 ) among many other things.But look at it this way. By 2030 our energy need will have soared to 15000 MW. The plans are to generate 5000MW from geothermal along the rift valley, 4000 from coal at the coast 2000 MW from hydro, 1500 from wind and solar wind. This definitely leaves us with a deficit of around 3500 MW which only leaves us with one option NUCLEAR. But remember if in the course of this gas reserves are discovered in large and commercially viable quantities, it will be a game changer. Because the NUCLEAR production will be revised. 0 •Reply•Share › Alexander Musyoka • 19 hours ago Is the persuit of nucleair energie informed by necessity or politicus? And while it seems admiralen to join the big boys club, immediate indicators are that its counterproductive to do so. Munch developer countries i.e.germany, netherlands and Japan are ether in THE process of phasing it out and/or have allready abolished it. Als à nation, we have the opportunity to build à green economy that fits info our image and future needs. Schotland enery policy is the way to go. Imagine à policy where incentives are geven to households to install solar penale and THE output fed to the national grid with households Earring for every kilowat less used up power hence supplimenting current power needs. There are à thusand good practices out there unless we are only interesten in annoteer charnoby. 0 •Reply•Share › gidz • 19 hours ago Guys lets look at future long term and not just today. Nuclear energy needs a long term planning/Investment. This includes planning, financing, security, approvals etc etc. By 2030 it’s projected that Kenya may required 15,000 megawatts of power. Considering we fully exploit geothermal, wind and solar, there will still be a deficit. In order to cover the deficit plans have to start early and make sure that by the time the project is mature the energy produced will be covering the deficit that will be there. If we sit back and wait until 2030 we will be very irresponsible. I understand based on projects ongoing, that all efforts are ongoing to make sure that renewable energies are exploited. The only question I have is how affordable will the energy be? At the moment the cost of energy is very high. 0 •Reply•Share › mwandawida • a day ago Kenya indeed needs to have a source of constant power supply in order to attract multinational manufacturing companies. But with the vast gas discoveries by our southern neighbors, more focus ought to be on gas just like Tanzania is already doing, and coal. 0 •Reply•Share › Rofi • a day ago I would like us to first and foremost master the art of driving on our roads with some decorum. I don't believe that there is enough discipline available amongst would be managers of the power station to run the plant efficiently. It might just end up something worse that the disaster in Russia. Why are turning to an eastern European country? Because countries like France and the UK would not dream of letting anybody in Kenya tinker with anything nuclear, that's why. 0 •Reply•Share › kanjoro • a day ago A sweet dream or is it Vision 2022? the past GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 14188, APPOINTMENT OF NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY PROJECT COMMITTEE MEMBERS Here is more on the topic: The Kenyan government has set up a nuclear electricity project committee to fast-track the development of nuclear energy in the country. The 13-member committee has been established for a three-year term with a remit that includes the preparation and implementation of a detailed road map to meet International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) terms and conditions for approval of nuclear plant construction, including a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework, as well as the identification of suitable plant sites on the Kenyan coast. The committee is headed by former energy minister Ochilo Ayacko and comes under the remit of the nation's Vision 2030 development strategy. Kenya sets up nuclear committee Here is an announcement by the Kenyan Government, published in the Kenya Gazette on the subject: GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 14188 APPOINTMENT OF NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY PROJECT COMMITTEE MEMBERS IT IS notified for general information of the public that the Minister for Energy, for the purposes of realizing Kenya’s vision 2030 and to fast track development of nuclear electricity in order to enhance the production of affordable and reliable electricity generation sources,establishes a Committee to be known as the Nuclear Electricity Project Committee. 1. The Nuclear Electricity Project Committee (hereinafter referred to as Committee) shall consist of the following— Ochilo Ayacko – (Executive Chairman), for a term of three years with effect from the 13th September, 2010. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Director-General, National Security Intelligence Service, Director, Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Managing Director, Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Managing Director, Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Chief Executive Officer, National Council for Science and Technology, Joseph O. Malo, Geoffrey N. Kamau, Jane Dwasi, Ruth Luyayi Wabwile, Kabage Karanja, Eva Gichunge, for a term of three years with effect from the 4th October, 2010. |
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Post by podp on Jan 6, 2013 21:22:06 GMT 3
SUPPLEMENT No. 170 Legislative Supplement LEGAL NOTICE NO. PAGE 131 - The Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board Order www.kenyalaw.org/klr/index.php?id=116316th November, 2012 LEGAL NOTICE NO. 131 THE STATE CORPORATIONS ACT (Cap. 446) IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 3 (1) of the State Corporations Act, I, Mwai Kibaki, President and Commander- in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, makes the following Order:— THE KENYA NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY BOARD ORDER PART I—PRELIMINARY 1. This Order may be cited as the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board Order, 2012. 2. In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires -- "Board" means the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board established under paragraph 3; "Executive Chairperson" means the Executive Chairperson appointed under paragraph 7; "Permanent Secretary" means the permanent secretary or principal secretary in the Ministry responsible for matters relating to energy; PART 11—ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD Establishment of the Kenya Nuclear electricity Board. (continue at....... www.kenyalaw.org/klr/index.php?id=1119 |
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Vandana Shiva brings her training and commitment to environmental and social justice to bear.
A critique of the campaign for nuclear energy in India. arguments totally relevant for the Kenyan situation.
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Kilifi set for EA's first nuclear energy plant Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY ELIAS YAA KILIFI county may host the first ever electricity generating nuclear plant in East Africa. A delegation of senior officers from the Ministry of Energy in the national government and Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi jetted travelled to South Korea at the weekend to formalise the plans. Speaking during the swearing in of the county executive committee on Friday, Kingi said Kilifi has been earmarked by the government to put up the nuclear plant. “South Korea has made a great milestone in nuclear technology in the world and we are optimistic that we will learn a lot there. We expect them to help us realise this dream,” he said. Ministry chief geologist John Omenge said a feasibility study conducted in the country indicated that the Kilifi and Lamu counties are suitable for the nuclear plant due to the availability of deep waters. Speaking to the Star on the phone, Omenge however said the negative perception on the effects of nuclear energy the world over may lead to a slow take off as the public will need a lot of education. He said nuclear energy will be a great boost to the national grid which relies heavily on water. Omenge said the government will exploit various forms of energy to supplement the hydro-dependent national grid. Other forms include the wind energy which is currently being put up in Kilifi. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-124577/kilifi-set-eas-first-nuclear-energy-plant |
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Canada’s Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump Next to Lake Huron Nuclear Dumb and Dumber by JOHN LaFORGE Kincardine, Ontario. The thought “Dumb and Dumber” came to mind as I recorded the work of Canada’s Joint Review Panel Sept. 23 and 24, here in Ontario, on the east end of Lake Huron. The JRP is currently taking comments on a proposal to dump radioactive waste in a deep hole, 1mile from the shore of this magnificent inland sea. What has to be called just plain dumb, is that the nuclear bomb industry branched out to build nuclear power reactors and, as E.F. Schumacher said, to “accumulate large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages.” Unfortunately in the case of radioactive waste this has happened here, in Canada, etc. Then, the giant Canadian utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) proposes to bury its radioactive waste in a limestone dug-out, or “deep geologic repository,” one mile from the Great Lake Huron. This must be considered “dumber”, but you’d be amazed at how much dumber it gets. Listening to the presentations of government regulators and utility propagandists for two long days normally puts reporters to sleep. But the staggering implausibility of some statements and the shockingly cavalier nature of others kept me blindingly awake. The low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste that could be dumped in a 2,200-foot deep hole here — 200,000 cubic meters of it — contains long-lived, alpha radiation emitters like plutonium, the most toxic substance on Earth, which is dangerous for 240,000 years (10 half-lives). Yet the reactor operator, Ontario Power Generation, had the nerve to say in a 2008 public handout: “[E]ven if the entire waste volume were to be dissolved into Lake Huron, the corresponding drinking water dose would be a factor of 100 below the regulatory criteria initially, and decreasing with time.” This flabbergasting assertion prompted me to say to ask the oversight panel, “Why would the government dig a 1-billion-dollar waste repository, when it is safe to throw all the radiation into the lake?” The panel members must have considered my question rhetorical because they didn’t answer. But it gets dumber. There is much concern among Canadians over the fact that their government’s allowable limit for radioactive tritium in drinking water is 7,000 becquerels-per-liter. In the U.S., the EPA’s allowable limit is 740 bq/L — a standard almost ten times more strict. (A Becquerel is a single radioactive disintegration per second.) Tritium is the radioactive form of hydrogen, it can’t be filtered out of water, and it is both dumped and vented by operating nuclear reactors, and can leak from radioactive wastes in large amounts. When the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission staff scientist at the hearing, Dr. Patsy Thompson, was asked why Canada’s allowable contamination was so much higher than the U.S.’s, Thompson said, “The U.S. limit is based on using wrong dose conversion factors from the 1970s that haven’t been corrected.” This preposterous assertion went unchallenged (because of hearings rules that required questions to be reserved in advance), but it will certainly be contested by Canadian and U.S. who have all learned a lot about tritium hazards since the ‘70s. Can you believe it got dumber still? Lothar Doehler, Manager of the Radiation Protection Service in the Occupational health and Safety Branch, Ministry of Labor, testified that “To ensure safety after a radiological accident, the labor ministry does monitoring of water, vegetables, soil and other foods.” I rushed to reserve a question and said for the record, “When the Labor Ministry measures radiation releases in the environment during a radiological accident, those releases have already occurred and exposure to that radiation has already begun. Simply monitoring the extent of radiological contamination does not ‘ensure safety’ from that radiation in any sense. Measuring radiation merely quantifies the harm being done by exposure to what is measured. Does the ministry have the authority to order evacuations from contaminated areas, like in Fukushima? Or to order the replacement of contaminated water with safe water, like in Fukushima? Or to order the cessation of fishing or fish consumption in the event of their contamination, like at Fukushima?” The Chair of the JRP, Dr. Stella Swanson answered that the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety was responsible for evacuation planning in the event of a disaster. For his part, Mr. Doehler added that he was responsible “… to see that radioactively contaminated food was safe to eat.” Stupefied by Mr. Doehler’s “blunder,” I missed a direct follow-up question and had to hustle after the man in the parking lot during a break to ask, “Pardon me Mr. Doehler; You didn’t mean to say that eating radioactive contamination in food is safe did you?” “Oh, no,” Mr. Doehler said, “I apologize if I left that impression” — as he handed me his card. Now Mr. Doehler is a highly-paid, high-level professional government official and didn’t make a mistake as I’d assumed. He’s not dumb or dumber, but enjoys deliberately misstating the facts when he can get away with it and when it suits his interests — just as Dr. Patsy Thompson does. No, the sad mistake here is that so many catastrophic government actions can move ahead toward approval because the general public is keeping too quiet, or “playing dumb.” John LaForge works for Nukewatch, an environmental watchdog group in Wisconsin, and edits its Quarterly newsletter. www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/nuclear-dumb-and-dumber/AND SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 A Letter to All Young Athletes Who Dream of Coming to Tokyo in 2020 Some Facts You Should Know About Fukushima www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/26/a-letter-to-all-young-athletes-who-dream-of-coming-to-tokyo-in-2020/ |
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