Nigeria’s nuclear regulator is the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA. It was created by the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act (Act 19) of 1995, but it came into being in May, 2001. The pioneer Director-General was Professor Shamsideen B. Read More …
The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, the country’s nuclear regulator, has revoked the licence of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Zaria, to operate a radioactive waste storage facility. NNRA, on 28 January, 2025, said this was after Read More …
Lab-grown meat is meat grown from an animal’s (stem) cells in a laboratory. Cells come together to form tissues in higher animals, and tissues come together to form organs, and organs form systems which make up the organism. Cells are Read More …
A man, Ayoola Idowu of Ekiti State, southwest Nigeria, has lost sight in both eyes after radiotherapy to remove a tumour in his jaw. He claimed to have undergone three radiotherapy regimes and that his eyes were not shielded during Read More …
The most popular peaceful use of nuclear energy is, arguably, in electricity generation. Nigeria requires 25,000 to 30,000 mw of electricity for any meaningful economic development. Total output has been about 3,700 mw from total grid capacity of Read More …
A Theory of Everything, TOE, is one that unifies, in a mathematical equation, all the four known interactions (major forces) in the Universe. TOE will make it possible for all four to be handled with one equation instead of using Read More …
Scientists in UK Atomic Energy Authority and University of Bristol have created the world’s first battery which can last thousands of years before running out of energy. They used Carbon 14 – the radioactive isotope of Carbon – with a Read More …
The Director-General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, Dr Yau Idris, has been elected Chairperson of the Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa, FNRBA. The forum is an association of all nuclear regulatory bodies in Africa. He served Read More …
The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in collaboration with the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, is holding a regional training course on Conditioning and Storage of Categories 3 to 5 Disused, Sealed Radioactive Sources in Nigeria. The venue is the Read More …
Dangote refinery started selling petrol from its gantry to suppliers on 15 September, 2024. This was a huge national relief as the four refineries in the country are not working, and Nigeria – an oil producing nation – had to Read More …
