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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this very important Motion in which we resolve that our country should stop investing in nuclear energy. Putting into consideration the efforts that have been put by the International Energy Atomic Agency in terms of making the world free of nuclear energy, it will be negative for us as a country to start now moving into that direction where we start investing in nuclear energy. As has been put clearly by the Member for Emuhaya, to invest in one nuclear plant, we need half a trillion shillings which is almost a half of our annual budget. This will be a very expensive venture and it will take us about 20 years to be able to do that. It will even take us more than 20 years to do that because for one, we have limited capacity in terms of human resource and the technical know- how. When you look at the issue of nuclear energy as much as it is very clean, safe and attractive, many of the countries that have invested in nuclear energy have had disasters. For example, we had the Chernobyl disaster, the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster and so on. We have seen a lot of serious challenges that affect human beings, the environment, and the plants and animals within those areas. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have very limited areas where we need to establish nuclear plants within our country.When you look at our country, many of the areas are inhabited by humans. It will, therefore, be very dangerous for us to engage ourselves in this adventure considering that we have huge and abundant alternative sources of energy such as geothermal, solar, wind, hydro and biomass forms of energy. These are areas that if we invest in as a country, we will be able to have enough energy to take us to the next stage. Furthermore, we have limited technical capacity and it will take not less than 20 years for us to be able to do the required critical mass for us to be able to invest in this. Nuclear reactors are prone to terrorism as has been put by our colleague. We will be courting a disaster if we invest in that. Therefore, I support this Motion that our country should not invest in nuclear energy. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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