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United Nations agency says Kenya on track in bid to ensure radiation safety
From left: Dr Arthur Koteng, assistant chief radiation protection officer, Prof Erastus Gatebe chair of Radiation Protection Board, and Javier Zarzuela, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) representative who led a mission to Kenya in July to assist in planning and using nuclear science and technology. PHOTO | STELLAR MURUMBA
In September 2013, Court of Appeal judges caused a stir when they refused to use their Elgon House offices in Nairobi for fear of radiation. They said that the communication masts near the posh Upper Hill offices emitted cancer-causing rays.
To the layman the juducial officers came out as fussy. The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), now Communications Authority of Kenya, which owns the masts, downplayed the judges’ fears saying that tests carried out showed that the radiation levels on all telecommunication masts in the country were within acceptable limits.
