Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a Nuclear Power Plant in Buyende district to generate 2,000 mw of electricity at an estimated cost of nine billion Read More …
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has re-appointed by acclamation Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi for a second four-year term. The 35-nation Board re-appointed Grossi by unanimous decision in its meeting on 10 March, 2023. He Read More …
The Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Dabo, announced plans by the university to build a car that will completely run on water as fuel. He was speaking on 4 March, 2023 on the anniversary of Read More …
Dr Katie Spalding, a mathematician and science writer, set out to answer this question. Information in your computers or mobile phones is stored as electrons, those tiny subatomic particles orbiting the outer shells of an atom. They have a mass Read More …
Nigeria is to build four nuclear power plants of 1,000 megawatts each, for electricity generation. The process is at the bidding stage. Dr Yau Idris, Director-General, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, said this at the Nigerian International Energy Summit in Read More …
Work on world’s largest and France’s first fusion reactor, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER, suffered a setback as the nuclear regulatory body, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, ASN, ordered work stoppage until certain concerns are addressed. The project, based on Read More …
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, on 7 February, 2024, led a team that visited the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant belonging to Ukraine but, occupied by Russia since 2022. This is the fourth visit by Read More …
In the last week of January, 2023 there were reports on Instagram and other social media of the discovery of electrically charged rocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was even called a “groundbreaking discovery” capable of being developed Read More …
Science World celebrates Professor Sunday Jonah, Director and Research Professor, Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, on his emerging the most cited staff of the university for 2023. Sunday Jonah as Professor of Nuclear Read More …
South Africa is inviting bids in March, 2024, for the construction of a 2,500 mw nuclear power plant for electricity generation. The country has Africa’s only nuclear power station with two reactors in Koeberg, producing 1,900 mw of South Africa’s Read More …
