It’s time for Africa to embrace nuclear energy - Capital Newspaper

It’s time for Africa to embrace nuclear energy - Capital Newspaper

Across the continent, a staggering 600 million people remain without access to electricity, a number that translates into significant energy poverty, particularly in rural Africa, where 70- 80 million need to gain access yearly to be on track to meet the 2030 universal access to electricity target. While our continent accounts for 17% of the world’s population, we generate less than 3% of global electricity. This ‘power poverty’ stifles industri…