As an ambitious plan to provide 300 million additional people in Africa with electricity by 2030 gets underway, officials are considering a range of energy sources — but nuclear will not be one of them.  

That’s according to Kevin Kariuki, the African Development Bank’s vice president for power, energy, climate and green growth.

“I cannot be an evangelist of nuclear in Africa, because I know it's not practicable. At least not with the level of technology that we have today,” he told Devex last week on the sidelines of AfDB’s annual meetings in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.  

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