Kenya Steps Up Import of Nuclear Reactors

[MK254]

By Annie Njanja

Kenya has stepped up import of nuclear reactors as part of its plans to diversify the national power generation mix.

Data gathered in a trial run of the Electronic Cargo Tracking Notes (ECTNs) shows nuclear reactors are among the common items that Kenya has ordered by sea in the last two months.

Kenya has since announced its ambition to set up a nuclear plant to stabilise national power supply by cutting reliance on expensive thermal energy and weather-dependent hydro power.

Other items shipped into the country by sea within the last two months include boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances. Others are paper, plastics, electrical machinery and equipment, textile articles, chemical products, iron and steel, beverages and spirits, second-hand clothing, and vehicles.

The ECTN trial run commissioned by Shippers Council of East Africa (SCEA) indicates that most of the shipments that arrived in Kenya by sea over the period originated from Europe.


China and Japan followed closely as main source of imports followed closely by India, North America, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine as the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and South America lagged behind.

The ECTN is regional cargo clearance system, which was piloted at the Mombasa port for two months starting mid-March. Tests on the system involved exporters, importers, government and regulatory authorities, service providers, interveners and shipping lines.

"The trial programme was applicable to exports bound to Kenya and saw importers apply for a total of 1,162 ECTNs with April recording the highest number of applications, owing to the increased awareness of the piloting by stakeholders," SCEA said in a statement.

The ECTN's systems records a shipments country of origin and it raised hope in the fight against undervaluing of goods and illegal imports. The system is meant to improve efficiency and reduce congestion at the port which blamed for raising demurrage and storage charges.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201606150100.html

 

[Sentry]

this cannot be true. african journalists are usually very incompetent. setting up nuclear reactors costs billions of dollars and would have to be allocated in the kenyan budget. cannot be imported so nonchalantly.

 

[Quickly]

this cannot be true. african journalists are usually very incompetent. setting up nuclear reactors costs billions of dollars and would have to be allocated in the kenyan budget. cannot be imported so nonchalantly.

teh teh teh it's as serious as a heart attack mister. Kenya is fully on its way to producing nuclear power, hii sio habari. Ungeandika kiswahili ungeeleweka vyema zaudi, sio lazima utumie egg language.

 

[Quickly]

this cannot be true. african journalists are usually very incompetent. setting up nuclear reactors costs billions of dollars and would have to be allocated in the kenyan budget. cannot be imported so nonchalantly.

teh teh teh it's as serious as a heart attack mister. Kenya is fully on its way to producing nuclear power, hii sio habari. Ungeandika kiswahili ungeeleweka vyema zaidi, sio lazima utumie egg language.

 

[Geza Ulole]

this cannot be true. african journalists are usually very incompetent. setting up nuclear reactors costs billions of dollars and would have to be allocated in the kenyan budget. cannot be imported so nonchalantly.

Kwani wanaelewa? Ati radio active reactors? Hawajui tofauti ya radioactive materials na reactors!

 

[Barbarosa]

By Annie Njanja

Kenya has stepped up import of nuclear reactors as part of its plans to diversify the national power generation mix.

Data gathered in a trial run of the Electronic Cargo Tracking Notes (ECTNs) shows nuclear reactors are among the common items that Kenya has ordered by sea in the last two months.

Kenya has since announced its ambition to set up a nuclear plant to stabilise national power supply by cutting reliance on expensive thermal energy and weather-dependent hydro power.

Other items shipped into the country by sea within the last two months include boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances. Others are paper, plastics, electrical machinery and equipment, textile articles, chemical products, iron and steel, beverages and spirits, second-hand clothing, and vehicles.

The ECTN trial run commissioned by Shippers Council of East Africa (SCEA) indicates that most of the shipments that arrived in Kenya by sea over the period originated from Europe.


China and Japan followed closely as main source of imports followed closely by India, North America, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine as the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia and South America lagged behind.

The ECTN is regional cargo clearance system, which was piloted at the Mombasa port for two months starting mid-March. Tests on the system involved exporters, importers, government and regulatory authorities, service providers, interveners and shipping lines.

"The trial programme was applicable to exports bound to Kenya and saw importers apply for a total of 1,162 ECTNs with April recording the highest number of applications, owing to the increased awareness of the piloting by stakeholders," SCEA said in a statement.

The ECTN's systems records a shipments country of origin and it raised hope in the fight against undervaluing of goods and illegal imports. The system is meant to improve efficiency and reduce congestion at the port which blamed for raising demurrage and storage charges.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201606150100.html

Hao ndiyo Wakenya bhana, maneno meengi lkn hamna chochote, nyani tu hivi majuzi kazima umeme nchi nzima leo hii wanaongelea Nuclear reactors, maneno yangekuwa ndiyo matendo leo hii Waafrika tungekuwa Bara tajiri kuliko yote Duniani!

 

[t_007]

Hivi lini kenya wameadvance haraka hivyo kuwashinda Nigeria, Egypt na nchi nyingine tajiri africa kushinda kenya? Kumiliki nuclear reactors lazima upate ruhusa ya IAEA na wamarekani South Africa walijaribu kumiliki silaha za nyuklia wakalazimishwa na wamarekani kuachana na huo mpango Kenya kwa uchumi gani iliokua nao imiliki nuclear reactors!! na mlivyo karibu na al shabab ndo kabisa wamarekani hawatawaruhusu kama bomba la mafuta tu wazungu wamekataa lisipite kenya kwa kuwa karibu na somalia ndo wakubali nuclear reactor!!

 

[Kafrican]

Kwani wanaelewa? Ati radio active reactors? Hawajui tofauti ya radioactive materials na reactors!

there is nowhere in the article where they mention radio active, hio akili yako imeungua unaanza kujiropokea.....
a nuclear reactor is pretty harmless without uranium.... infact I would imagin kengen uses a thermal rector to convert steam to electricity especially that 140MW plant which is the single the largest in the world (it was build by engeneers from toyota (makes me notice that Toyota is really invested in kenya). its not that different from a neclear reactor.... one uses fission to turn uranium isotopes to heat and energy and channels it to a turbine to produce nuclear power and the other reactor directly uses heat from the ground and with water turns into steam and channel it to a turbine...... ofcourse the nuclear way is much more complicated with dealing with fission/fussion energy but after that, the process of converting nuclear and therman energy is pretty much the same.

half the power grid in south Africa is crumbling (just google it) they had alot of problems with blackouts last year...... and they have had a nuclear power plant for decades without problems of leakages or accidents, dont let a white man lie to your psychology that a black man cant have nuclear power for peaceful means



SA uses a presurized water reactor Koeberg Nuclear Power Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that station alone provides the same amout of power that Tanzania currently produces nationwide, and it has been running dince 1984..... now how do you expect to compete with such a country? no wonder all the car manufacturing campanies set up shop there..... its time for us to disrupt the status quo and join the major leagues...

 

[Geza Ulole]

there is nowhere in the article where they mention radio active, hio akili yako imeungua unaanza kujiropokea.....
a nuclear reactor is pretty harmless without uranium.... infact I would imagin kengen uses a thermal rector to convert steam to electricity especially that 140MW plant which is the single the largest in the world (it was build by engeneers from toyota (makes me notice that Toyota is really invested in kenya). its not that different from a neclear reactor.... one uses fission to turn uranium isotopes to heat and energy and channels it to a turbine to produce nuclear power and the other reactor directly uses heat from the ground and with water turns into steam and channel it to a turbine...... ofcourse the nuclear way is much more complicated with dealing with fission/fussion energy but after that, the process of converting nuclear and therman energy is pretty much the same.

half the power grid in south Africa is crumbling (just google it) they had alot of problems with blackouts last year...... and they have had a nuclear power plant for decades without problems of leakages or accidents, dont let a white man lie to your psychology that a black man cant have nuclear power for peaceful means

Thermal reactor is not the same as nuclear reactor a fast reactor! Peleka ujinga wako wa Kikenya na stupid bragging rights of urs! That's poor Jounalism

 

[Sammuel999]

Inferiority complex kwa Watanzania HAPO MPO MBELE SANA

 

[Geza Ulole]

Inferiority complex kwa Watanzania HAPO MPO MBELE SANA

leta argument zenye akili jinga wewe mnafikiria hatujui kinachoongelewa na ukweli wake ati nuclear reactor! that Annie Njanja is sleeping in the World of illiteracy on what she just wrote! Tells of how shallow r Kenyan journalists on matters they write!

 

[collinss]

Hivi lini kenya wameadvance haraka hivyo kuwashinda Nigeria, Egypt na nchi nyingine tajiri africa kushinda kenya? Kumiliki nuclear reactors lazima upate ruhusa ya IAEA na wamarekani South Africa walijaribu kumiliki silaha za nyuklia wakalazimishwa na wamarekani kuachana na huo mpango Kenya kwa uchumi gani iliokua nao imiliki nuclear reactors!! na mlivyo karibu na al shabab ndo kabisa wamarekani hawatawaruhusu kama bomba la mafuta tu wazungu wamekataa lisipite kenya kwa kuwa karibu na somalia ndo wakubali nuclear reactor!!

Hehehe, bado una imani na wazungu kwa kla jambo?
heh, ukoloni mamboleo.

 

[uporo wa wali ndondo]

Hivi wakenya wote ni wahaya?

 

[Kafrican]

Thermal reactor is not the same as nuclear reactor a fast reactor! Peleka ujinga wako wa Kikenya na stupid bragging rights of urs! That's poor Jounalism

I have said once the fission process is done.. the process of converting the heat to electricity is the same... I have not said the reactors are the same.

weather you are using coal, gas, thermal or nulear, the principle is the same.... those materials are nothing but fuel. a chaim reaction will convert that fuel in to energy the energy is the one that is needed from this fuels.... and the nuclear option produces too much of it and is dangerous to handle and much complicated to process, you have to shield it to protect yourself, you have to have a complicated process to cool it or else it will continue to heat up...you have to contain it... this what makes it expensive.... the reactor is not one thing, the reactor is a number of different equipments, there ai the one that contains the nuclear rods and does the fission reaction, there is another equipment that converts the heat to energy, there is a coolant, a generator.... all this then makes a reactor.... I would imagin the most expensive piece of equipment would be the one that contains the nuclear rods..... I would also imagin that not all parts of the reactor would be fully funded by Kenya, there are 3 countries that have signed deals to build a nuclear plant I think it was russia, China and ukrain also US...... and I would also imagin that the container equpment housing the nuclear rods would be among the last things to be imported/installed in a nuclear reactor since its the unstable part of a nuclear plant and requres carefull handling (that part will most likely be brought by a navy ship from the country of origin so it doeant fall in the wrong hands on the way).. the rest of the parts of a nuclear reactor are probably the ones bieng imported in advance.

anyway, bottomline is, the process of building a nuclear power plant in 2020 (or was it by 2020) has begun... you can hang yourself, eat a banana, throw yourself from a bridge, tell your girlfriend/wife to jerk you off to release your stress..we dont care coz it doesnt matter, we will still be on our way to building a nuclear power plant

 

[MK254]

Kafrican thanks I have learnt quite a bunch. Hehehe you can be a real pain man.

 

[t_007]

Hehehe, bado una imani na wazungu kwa kla jambo?
heh, ukoloni mamboleo.

wewe ndo utakuwa kichaa kuamini kenya kumiliki nuclear reactor ujenzi tu ni 2 to 9billion usd sawa na 202609000000ksh na hapo ni cost za kujenga 1 nuclear reactor, bado kununua uranium na kumanage sasa kama kenya ghafla wamekuwa matajiri hivyo hongera kwao. Hapo bado kuna tatizo la al shabaab kama wakiruhusiwa kujenga basi mzungu atakua kageuka mjaluo.

 

[game over]

Kafrican thanks I have learnt quite a bunch. Hehehe you can be a real pain man.

Hahaha. Unapumua sasa

 

[game over]

I have said once the fission process is done.. the process of converting the heat to electricity is the same... I have not said the reactors are the same.

weather you are using coal, gas, thermal or nulear, the principle is the same.... those materials are nothing but fuel. a chaim reaction will convert that fuel in to energy the energy is the one that is needed from this fuels.... and the nuclear option produces too much of it and is dangerous to handle and much complicated to process, you have to shield it to protect yourself, you have to have a complicated process to cool it or else it will continue to heat up...you have to contain it... this what makes it expensive.... the reactor is not one thing, the reactor is a number of different equipments, there ai the one that contains the nuclear rods and does the fission reaction, there is another equipment that converts the heat to energy, there is a coolant, a generator.... all this then makes a reactor.... I would imagin the most expensive piece of equipment would be the one that contains the nuclear rods..... I would also imagin that not all parts of the reactor would be fully funded by Kenya, there are 3 countries that have signed deals to build a nuclear plant I think it was russia, China and ukrain also US...... and I would also imagin that the container equpment housing the nuclear rods would be among the last things to be imported/installed in a nuclear reactor since its the unstable part of a nuclear plant and requres carefull handling (that part will most likely be brought by a navy ship from the country of origin so it doeant fall in the wrong hands on the way).. the rest of the parts of a nuclear reactor are probably the ones bieng imported in advance.

anyway, bottomline is, the process of building a nuclear power plant in 2020 (or was it by 2020) has begun... you can hang yourself, eat a banana, throw yourself from a bridge, tell your girlfriend/wife to jerk you off to release your stress..we dont care coz it doesnt matter, we will still be on our way to building a nuclear power plant

Brother wacha porojo,
Huyo mwandishi ni mjinga tu,
Huwezi kimbilia reactors wakati hata uranium haijaanza kuchimbwa,
hivi mnaelewa maana na gharama za nuclear fission??

 

[t_007]

Brother wacha porojo,
Huyo mwandishi ni mjinga tu,
Huwezi kimbilia reactors wakati hata uranium haijaanza kuchimbwa,
hivi mnaelewa maana na gharama za nuclear fission??

Bro kabla ya kwenda kwenye nuclear fission kwanza wameshapata kibali kutoka IAEA?? unapoteza nguvu kuwaelewesha hata kibali hawajapewa waache kuleta habari za alinacha

 

[game over]

Bro kabla ya kwenda kwenye nuclear fission kwanza wameshapata kibali kutoka IAEA?? unapoteza nguvu kuwaelewesha hata kibali hawajapewa waache kuleta habari za alinacha

Mkuu hawa watu huwa wanaongea na hata hawajui wanaongea nini.