Kenya’s announcement that KenGen will serve as the owner and operator of the country’s first nuclear power plant marks a significant step in the long journey toward introducing nuclear power into the national energy mix.
While the decision has been widely reported as a boost to Kenya’s ambition to add up to 10 gigawatts of clean and reliable power, it also highlights a less visible but equally important issue: how responsibilities are shared among the institutions that will shape the nuclear power programme.
