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Akwa Ibom and Kogi state are to host Nigeria first nuclear power plants. The plants would likely begin when Nigeria has finish with the financial papers.
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| Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, the executive governor of Akwa Ibom state. |
Russia’s state-owned Company, Rosatom, which has been in talks with Nigeria over the nuclear plants, confirmed that Akwa Ibom and Kogi sites had been selected in Africa’s most populous nation to host the plants and said they would have a total of four reactors.
Africa’s biggest economy has no experience in developing, operating and maintaining nuclear plants but has a minor reactors producing about 53 KW for research, Franklin Erepamo Osaisai, chief executive of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, said on its website.
One nuclear power plant costs between $5 billion to $8 billion, a source at Rosatom said. Another source from Nigeria’s nuclear agency said the sites will be in Akwa Ibom state, in southeast Nigeria, and Kogi state, in the central northern part of the country.
Nigeria, with a population of around 170 million, has installed power capacity that fluctuates between around 6,000 MW to just over 7,000 MW, according to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, with 80 percent of its power plants fired by gas.
By comparison, South Africa’s capacity is almost seven times greater for a population less than a third as big.
However, Nigeria has not yet said how it plans to fund the construction, a key question given its finances have taken a hit after a slump in the price of oil, its main export.
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| A nuclear plant diagram. (Photo source: whatisnuclear.com) |
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