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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, why should we go nuclear? In fact, even though South Korea is a huge nuclear power nation, it only generates 30 per cent of their energy from nuclear, with about 23 reactors. They still have a lot of coal-fired thermal power. So, it does not mean that if went nuclear then we will not be developing other sources of power. In fact, as we are talking, they are even developing power from the current in the sea and even solar power to supplement all those things that they are doing. It is a mix of many other things, but there is propaganda against this initiative; that you want to kill us with nuclear. That is the feeling. In fact, I met a very senior Kenyan who is an engineer and a managing director of a parastatal. He told me: “Tell Ayacko to forget about that nuclear thing of his. Does he want to kill us?” That is an educated Kenyan, holding a huge responsibility, but he thinks that nuclear is death. It has not killed the Americans, Germans, Britons, French or anybody, except two or three accidents ever since the nuclear technology came. I do not know how many people buses have killed since the bus technology came. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is some fear and propaganda that this is not the right thing for us. It is dangerous and not environmentally friendly. But we are not starting from nowhere. We are starting from a partner who is already there and a superpower in the production of this thing, both in safety and the things that they have which we can learn from them. They have nuclear human resource development and a school there where we even found some young students from Kenya learning. They develop the manpower first and then get the public to accept that this is the direction that we want to go. I think that is the reason they called us to go there. Now that we are debating in a Chamber of the Senate, I am sure that people will know that we are talking with some authority, because we have been there and seen it. So, we need to have a campaign to tell our people that nuclear energy is not death, but actually growth. That is the way to go. After talking to their own people, they have heavy companies that have built these things everywhere else. In fact, the Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has been selling reactors to the United States of America. Right now, they are building four reactors in Dubai. Dubai has oil. If they wanted to burn oil, they could burn a lot of it. But they have realized that you must kind of have a bit of this and a bit of that. I think if we gave it the support that it requires – and that support comes from the top, which is the Senate – if that comes from here and if we persuaded the Kenyan people that this is the way to go, I am sure they will support us. Of course, they have done some surveys in Korea itself where they asked how many people support the nuclear programme, even after the accident in Japan, and more than 90 per cent of the people have said “yes, we support it” because they noticed that was an accident. First of all, this thing which comes from the sea – is it called---"
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