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6. Hospitals
7. Vaccine production and distri-
bution
8. Homes
9. Elimination poverty & hunger
Let us encourage more African
nations to expand their energy grid
with nuclear power.

Nigeria invites bids as it
prepares to construct its first
nuclear power plant, amid
security concerns

Business Insider Africa

Emmanuel Abara Benson March 2, President Muhammadu Buhari approves appointment of Usman Idris
2022 10:41 AM as NNRC DG.

• The nuclear power plant is
projected to become Nigeria’s capacity. “There are mechanisms put in place that
largest power plant and could ensure any country can build a nuclear
potentially solve the country’s Meanwhile, there have been con- power plant. Nigeria is trying to deliver
electricity challenges. cerns about Nigeria’s ability to 4,000MW of electricity through nuclear
• However, there are have been manage a nuclear power plant, con- power. We are trying to construct four
concerns about the country’s sidering the delicate nature of such units and we are at the bidding stage,” he
ability to manage a nuclear pow- a project as well as the country’s was quoted by local media to have
er plant, considering its peculiar peculiar security situation. Dr Idris said.
security challenges. addressed these concerns during
• Note that the bidding process his speech, stressing that it is wrong It should be noted that the bid-
is very critical to any nuclear for anyone to assume that Nigeria’s ding process is very critical to any
power project, according to the is incapable of managing a nuclear nuclear power project. A report by
International Atomic Energy project. the International Atomic Energy
Agency. Agency (IEAE) titled “Invitation

The Nigerian Government said it
has commenced the bidding process
in preparation for the construction
of a 4000 megawatts nuclear power
plant in the country.

The Director General of the Nige-
rian Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Dr
Yau Idris, disclosed this while speak-
ing during the Nigerian Internation-
al Energy Summit in Abuja, yester-
day. According to him, the nuclear
power plant is projected to become
Nigeria’s largest power plant, and
could significantly improve the West
African country’s power generation Ghana to generate nuclear power by 2030

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