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    "content": "Coming to the nuclear energy in South Korea, you realize that they are ahead of many countries in Africa. When I looked at the amount of nuclear energy that is produced in South Korea, it is higher than the rest of Africa, minus South Africa. If a small country like South Korea can produce that much and the rest of Africa cannot even produce enough nuclear energy to even propel a nuclear reactor, it means that there is something wrong. It is not that South Korea has uranium to produce nuclear energy; they import it from South Africa. If South Africa is in the continent of Africa where we are, we can also import uranium from there and produce nuclear reactors and atoms. That is what will lead us to produce nuclear energy. Madam Temporary Speaker, as far as I am concerned, it is better to have nuclear energy which is cheaper, economical and not as expensive as hydro power. So, if Kenya can afford to put up as many hydro power stations as it has now done, for example, the Turkwel Gorge, Masinga and Kindaruma which produce less than what is produced by one nuclear reactor in South Korea, economists in Kenya should advise us to abandon hydro power and move to nuclear power. After all, it is even not sufficient. The cost involved in dredging these dams is very high. Even the resultant costs of construction works are very high. We should change to nuclear energy which has less waste compared to water. In any case, water leads to soil erosion and siltation of dams. Sometimes even the water itself for power generation will not be there because of prolonged droughts. You find that in South Korea, much as it is located in South East Asia, there is no rainfall problem. They receive regular, heavy rainfall from the monsoon winds. They still can generate a lot of hydro power, but they kind of abandoned that because that occurs naturally there. They wanted to develop alternative sources of power such as nuclear power. That is what we should target at doing."
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