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    "id": 502814,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/502814/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "nuclear plants that are funded by private investments. It must be through the government. It is a heavily capital investment programme. There is shortage of skilled manpower worldwide. To get nuclear experts worldwide is a major issue. Most of the people who have gone for nuclear studies, upon finishing, there is nowhere to get a job. So, they always change. Some of our best nuclear scientists who were trained changed to other jobs when they came back. Nuclear energy requires large quantities of water. If the country has a serious shortage of water like we have, it is not easy to put up a nuclear plant. Nuclear energy technology itself is inherently hazardous. It carries a lot of risks. For example, if a nuclear plant for some reason leaks, it causes a major threat to the livelihoods of people. However, the most important problem of nuclear energy is the nuclear waste that comes out after uranium is burned to produce energy. How to deal with that waste is a challenge. As we talk now, there is no technology in the world on how to deal with nuclear waste. The lifespan of nuclear waste ranges between 100 and one million years. So, after you have used your uranium, you have to keep the nuclear waste for almost a million years for it to be safe or to degrade. Most nuclear plants have a lifespan of a maximum of 60 years. That means that after a nuclear plant has been decommissioned after the 60 years, you have to keep the nuclear material for a maximum of one million years. As of now, there is no safe way of keeping it. Even the US, Germany and Sweden which have nuclear energy do not know how to keep it. So, it is a very serious matter."
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