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    "id": 502857,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. J.K. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiragu Chege",
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    "content": "telling us that our people and our young people cannot study Physics and that they have no future for Chemistry application, it is a person who has no vision for our country. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to say that it is fair for us to explore all opportunities that are there and are being explored by other countries that we are competing with in terms of the world’s economic development. If we are going to develop power that is going to be expensive such that when you manufacture things in this country they cannot compete with those countries that are using nuclear power, then we are disadvantaged. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what we want to do is to have this country compete with others. I believe that with all the pool of scientists that are here in this country, there is no challenge for us to be told that we cannot site a nuclear plant in Kenya. I have not heard of any data saying that nuclear power requires so much volume of water and for that matter that volume is not available. If we talk about density, we are 40 million in this country, and therefore, this country has got a lot of land that is possible to have such a facility. There is a conspiracy out; people who say that a person from this black continent cannot risk having knowledge of nuclear technology are wrong. We have black people in other countries like America who are into nuclear technology. What is the difference if it is somebody who is from this country? If we stop this venture, it will be bad for this nation. I am pleading with my colleagues that we open the doors for our kids to continue studying nuclear technology, whether it is for power generation or medical. We should not block nuclear technology because our future relies on technologies that have been proven by others that they have returns. I believe that one of the things most people fear is to have a disaster. I heard somebody say that disasters often happen and he only quoted the Chernobyl and Japanese case. How many nuclear power plants do we have in the world? We also know that when aeroplanes crash it is terrible, but they are still very safe. With people who are trained and can man them properly, they are safe. Nuclear technology is safe too. I believe that this is not something we should be discussing because we will be bringing disaster to this nation by telling young people that they have no hope in subjects they study in school. Thank you."
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