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Zimbabwe Considers Nuclear Energy To End Load Shedding

5 months agoMon, 04 Nov 2024 14:16:47 GMT

Zimbabwe Considers Nuclear Energy To End Load Shedding

Zimbabwe has engaged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to explore the potential for establishing nuclear power plants in the country.

Despite having significant coal deposits, Zimbabwe has struggled to meet its growing electricity demands due to a lack of investment in thermal power stations over the years.

The nation has been heavily reliant on the Kariba Hydro Power Plant, which has an installed capacity of 1,050 MW.

However, power generation at the Kariba plant has been severely limited by recurrent droughts that have affected water levels.

During a recent Question and Answer session in the National Assembly, Energy and Power Development Minister Edgar Moyo said that the government is engaging the IAEA to explore prospects of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Said Moyo (via The Herald):

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As Zimbabwe, we have expressed our interest to the IAEA our desire to get into nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. They are with us and they are taking us through.
Committees have been set up, which are looking into that and there are milestones that we have to meet as a country before we get to the stage of developing small modular reactors so that our contribution of clean energy mix is heightened.
So, we hope these are some of the things, programmes and projects which are going to increase our contribution to the energy mix of clean energy.

Nuclear power generates minimal greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuels, making it an appealing option for mitigating climate change impacts.

Nuclear fuel boasts a high energy density, meaning that a small quantity can produce a substantial amount of energy, thereby decreasing the demand for extensive fuel resources.

However, high-profile accidents such as Chernobyl and Fukushima have heightened public concerns regarding the safety of nuclear power plants and the potential for catastrophic incidents.

Furthermore, the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste poses a significant challenge, necessitating secure and effective long-term storage solutions.

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112 Comments

Joe · 5 months ago

agaeg

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Chivayo is your man. Pay him 500 million up front and he will get the job done. DO IT NOW.

Mark Mutebuka · 5 months ago

Nuclea ndiyo chaiyo cz tinoita joint venture neMozambique ine mvura.

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Change the name ZANUpf first, that is the name that is dividing the people. Fokof

Anonymous · 5 months ago

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Sunata · 5 months ago

Gara zviya ye ku muzarabani ye GAS takazoita sei zviya.takariwana here.

Narcissist😒 · 5 months ago

yakangorova yekedero

Farmer's Roundtable 🥙🇿🇼 · 5 months ago

The son of a humble peasant says "He who blames everybody will go nowhere. He who blames himself is half the journey. He who blames nobody is about to arrive." Play your part, mind your business and then you will be successful.

JakeX · 5 months ago

Zviroto-zviroto! Soon they will be kwamaring kuti tiri in fusion/fission talks ne Germany.

Rwanda · 5 months ago

haa comment section iyi ine ma1 horait

𝙎𝙞𝙮𝙤𝙮𝙤 · 5 months ago

ZANU PF failed for 44 years now they're fake promising us , ngavabve vanhu ava. 44 years vasina kugadzira manpower plants so nuclear yacho vachaita how long to success. ZANU PF must go kwete kunyeperwa soon. now load shedding is around 18 hours and almost all businesses need electricity, nyama yoorera mumafridges we don't need ZANU PF anymore 🥺

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Dai zvimwe vachinyarara havo,kuzviitira weti mubhurugwa usina akupomera

👀👀 · 5 months ago

@Pk kana vachikundikana kuisa ma paracetamol nema metronidazole mumahospiral vanozosimudza nuclear here,nhasi chaiye I've heard anga achida kubaiwa tetanus achinzi enda unotenga drug ne injection ne syringe yacho,how far pa nuclear,hete in Zim we dream and the apposite happens,

pk · 5 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@👀👀 in this **** hole you call a country everything is possible because there are hungry lions out there who are willing to invest and plunder the resources eg Invictus, Chinese steel smelting etc it's a feast of thugs🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

👀👀 · 5 months ago

@Mugabe ,chimwe chakautwa ne second republic kunze kwejugadzira ma roads anoenda kwaiutirwa SADC chii,am coming from Chii town Central hospital now,2 pipo have died varimumutsetse wekuti varapwe due to shortage of doctors and equipment to use,the doctor was in the C section and the other was attending another emegency,mbudzi round about chaiyo haisati yapera,pipo have no taped water ,civil servants are crying loud everyday,so nuclear ndooyavanozogona kusimudza here?michina ye chemotherapy chaiyo munyika hamuchina u have to go to SA,l have a cousin who died recently of cancer,so tell me exactly direction irikuendwa ne your so called second republic,or you do not leave in here

Mugabe · 5 months ago

Second Republic haisi kumira vanovukura vukurai henyu

👀👀 · 5 months ago

ana Tongai naana Sean ndoovanotaura izvozvo

🕺🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️ · 5 months ago

nuclear power generation in zim?.. asi pane maelections ava kuda kuitwa here?

Sergi · 5 months ago

haa comment section ino is one of the best for sure 😹😹

fairy tales · 5 months ago

stories and fairy tales are something you tell to children at bedtime !!!

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Nuclear....hold on now, you first need Zesa to be able to build a nuclear power plant. Also, what happened to the satellite program? These chaps are fooling themselves.

pk · 5 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this comment section you can actually see how we as Zimbabweans are letting ourselves down. in life we need dreamers there's nothing impossible just to know the requirements needed to install nuclear power plant it's enough we start from there rather than having a negative mind to an extent of failing to try. the situation is very tough guys we all know about that but how many ordinary people are building big houses now while someone is failing to buy a loaf of bread and blem it on the economy. time will never wait for the economy to improve for you to dream so dream now my dear brother and sister 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Seriously, you want to dream of a nuclear power station when the current custodians can't run a Thermal one. You saw Fukushima? That was caused by a natural disaster and the place is uninhabitable for generations. You want a natural disaster like Zesa running a nuclear power station?

Sol Regem · 5 months ago

Aaah please stop trying to fool us with your foolish upbeat propaganda speech, anything in the hands of the Government will never work here, only individual initiatives not government ones

aha ok · 5 months ago

duh !

👀👀 · 5 months ago

building a house and builing a country are two different things,kana vachikundikana pane tuma small small vanozosimudza nuclear here,zviroto zveZim zvakazombobuda ndezvipi,zvitaure so everyone can know

JakeX · 5 months ago

No we dont need dreams, we should work with the obvious and build up on that. That stage where we can just dream and start working on them right away we are behind by a swath from here to Machi Pichu.

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Zimbabwe is a small economy, 3009 mega watts from solar energy can power everything in this small country

ruka · 5 months ago

hoo

Chavhunduka · 5 months ago

Mr Z is talking vry excellent,it needs us to understand

sekuru · 5 months ago

Thejoke of the year

Sir African · 5 months ago

What a snake pit ,a hellhole

chaka · 5 months ago

wet dreams

Anonymous · 5 months ago

Now I have really heard it all.. .I can't stop laughing 😆 🤣 😂 😄 😅 😭

Sir African · 5 months ago

Binga and Mutawatawa still have mud and pole schools almost 50 after so called independence. Kana vazopedza kuvaka zvikoro totangira ipapo.

Ediots · 5 months ago

noooooooo! the issue is about mismanagement & u do not want to have a Fukushima in Zimbabwe it will not end well.

theLastAntKing · 5 months ago

it is a noble idea...but how can it be financed? With the "Best currency in the region " which is still on nose dive stance, this remains a dream. Imbovakai Batoka or a solar farm zvaro rinokwanisa kuchajisa ma cellphone 1000 chete then maybe by then Nuclear plant can be constructed. It's not like we always criticise this liberation government but since 1980 how many things has it accomplished on its own?! A few & many failures. But on sanction reporting its #1

Mudhibhisi · 5 months ago

What a marvellous pipe dream?It costs at least US10bn to build the smallest nuclear plant.In 40+ years ZANU has failed to give us world class roads,functional hospitals & schs that costs even less that amount. Maybe if it was Bots.Ndakambozvitaura kt Bots kuseri,it's shinning,ZANU ichingotaura abt colonisation and the struggle which took place decades ago

370H-55V O773H🙃 · 5 months ago

Botswana leaders vaka go fanana nema Coo pa company

Anonymous · 5 months ago

US$10Bn? You forgot to add 100% Zanoid facilitation fee.

Mmmm · 5 months ago

God blessed us, but what we need is action in all sectors. Free corruption,

Fidel Castro · 5 months ago

kkkk ayas these Zanoids muchitadza kuvaka national sports stadium

jivaschihwehwete@gmail.com · 5 months ago

Circus, tanhai dzamunosvikira mavakuda kupedza vanhu zvino. You are failing to carry out simple maintenance what more about safe uranium desposal. Regai nyika igogadziriswa nevatungamira vanoda kuDeveloper nyika kwete mbavha dzinoda power nekuba chete.

Z · 5 months ago

BEKINA FASO IS BUILDING A NUCLEAR PLANT TO SERVE ITS ERNEGY CRISIS SO IF ZIMBABWE JOINS THE RACE WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? WE SHOULD ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE THIS BOLD INITIATIVE WHETHER IT TAKES 50 OR 100YRS WE MUST WIN IN THE END. NATIONAL PROJECTS ARE NOT BROILER 6WK PROJECTS,NO THEY TAKE TIME AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT OR NOT ITS THE SURVIVING NATIONAL IMPORTANT AFTER THOSE LONG YEARS WHO IS MORE IMPORTANT. HOW MANY HEROES DIED BEFORE OUR INDEPENDENCE? THE WAR WAS STARTED BY. 6 GALLANT SONS OF ZIMBABWE AND THEY ALL PERISHED AND NEVER WITNESSED THE FREEDOM WE GOT BUT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED AND EVENTUALLY WE WON. WE NEED TO BE MORE POSITIVE TO SUCH PROJECTS AS A NATION AND STOP THE REBELLIOUS ATTITUDE IN OUR MIDST IT WON'T HELP US AT ALL. THE END RESULT IS ONE CAN UNCONSCIOUSLY BECOME ANOTHER JUDAS ISCARIOT.

Sol Regem · 5 months ago

100 yrs 🤣🤣🤣, you must be crazy, we need power like now. Burkina Faso isn't building anything it's probably the Russians building it, that poor country doesn't have the know how to do such a thing. And I can bet my last dollar that no nuclear plant will ever go live in Zimbabwe if Zanu PF is in power, considering the many promises and projects they have abandoned or failed to fulfill, come on man they are struggling to maintain a coal fired power plant and you expect them to go nuclear 😅. Now I know why Zanu keeps on lying to us because they know gullible people like you will believe them. Those 6 heroes are lucky that they died, at least they won't have to witness the suffering of the people and watch how the country has gone downhill since 1980, plagued by currency failures, a tanking economy, high unemployment and massive looting of national resources and public funds.

Z · 5 months ago

@SOL REGEN ITS THAT NEGATIVE MENTALLITY THAT BOGS YOUR MIND. YOU UNASHAMEDLY DISPLAY YOUR IGNORANCE ON FACT THAT THE COUNTRY IS UNDER ECONOMIC SANCTIONS. WE ARE CORNERED AND YOU PRETEND TO THINK OTHERWISE. DON'T BE A HYPOCRIT COZ YOU KNOW THAT ZIMBABWE IS UNDER PUNITIVE SANCTIONS. WE KNOW YOU SERVE IMPERIALISTS. BURKINA FASO IS CORRECTLY BUILDING ITS NUCLEAR REACTOS FOR ERNEGY PURPOSES AND VERY TRUE THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IS DOING THE JOB. AT INDEPENDENCE IN 1980 OUR POPULATION WAS A MERE 5MILLION. TODAY THE SAME TEAPOT SHAPED COUNTRY HAS ALMOST 16MILLION PEOPLE. IF YOU PASSED YOUR MATHS THIS ANALYSIS MUST START TO OPEN YOUR TIMID BRAIN SLOWLY AND ANSWER ALL FOOLISH QUESTIONS THAT BOTHER YOU DAILY. I WON'T GIVE YOU A TIP ON THE EQUATION. JUST WORK IT OUT.

Anonymous · 5 months ago

You are delusional Z. Surrounded by who? The brethren in SADC? Zimbabwe has been reduced to a beggar. There comes a time in life when you need to recognise realism not blindly denying the truth with rhetoric. Please extricate your head from between your legs. The fresh air will do the body and mind good. Zimbabweans are tired of practicing the Air Zimbabwe brace position. Zimbabwe needs results not lies meant to deflect accountability.

Sir African · 5 months ago

@Z what freedom are talking about,freedom to loot and destroy the country?

Duma Boko Haram · 5 months ago

Iko kuzoshedzera nemacapital letters uchihumana kkkkkk. You probably don't know anything about the Batoka gorge project, the Gwanda solar project, 2020 health for all, 2018 kujekesa nyika yese nemagetsi, 2018 free education for all, Kunzvi dam water project, Zambezi river project, the most powerful currency in the region, if you had an idea of any of those you wouldn't be uttering that rebellious attitude nonsense, anyway what else can we expect from a Hebert Chitepo school of EDeology student

Zandile Afrika · 5 months ago

Well said!

😎😎😎 · 5 months ago

My son is now 9 years but I don't think he's ever going to see such a dream

Uzumba · 5 months ago

Zimbabwe pane zvaisati yamboita consider here middle class economy, nuclear,kkk

MUKANYAPAZVESE · 5 months ago

That's a long shot

bulldozer · 5 months ago

3rd world pasasi, muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi

Anonymous · 5 months ago

The Erudite suggested this option ages ago

Justice · 5 months ago

There will never be any progress until there is a foreign investor willing to invest 100% and give Dambudzo 50% free shares.

ClD Admire kuyeri · 5 months ago

Nehanda zesa power to the people.

Zindoga · 5 months ago

l still remember Mnangagwa talking about Solar system which is going to be established in Binga next year. Surprisingly, they are now talking about nuclear energy. Kuda kupfura shiri mbiri nedombo rimwe

Laugher · 5 months ago

How about Gwanda Solar project money was stolen, the guy is free

Anonymous · 5 months ago

He put in a solar security light. Zesa believe he has fulfilled his obligations.

👁️ · 5 months ago

Regai vataurevo nhema. Vanhuvo. Vanonyara dzimwe nguva kuramba vakanyarara zvinhu zvichishata kudai.

Mazuva · 5 months ago

Do you also need to contact the IAEA to establish solar farms in the country? Do you need IAEA to authorise recovery of our Gwanda solar project money from Chivhayo? Let's just say that you have come up with one of your numerous another looting scams.

Kkk ndo department raMr Chuwenga · 5 months ago

Zvombo ndezvegandanga guru cc mwana wepachivhu uyo

Bantu · 5 months ago

Hahahahahahahahaha seka zvako mukanya vanofunga kuti zviri nyore sekurigger ma elections ,rega tione kwavanosvika nenyambo dzavo dzinoperera mukanwa sezvihwitsi, zuro vaiti varikuda kuisa masolar muKariba dam nhasi vava PA nuclear, zvinosetsa mbavha irere mugwenzi.

370H-55V O773H🙃 · 5 months ago

There is nothing to do wrong to have such aspirations hope this would be rolled out before EDs and term ends and as for the waste of spent nuke, I think the IAEA has a mandate to dispose off waste

??? · 5 months ago

mukanyora shona munofa here

Sol Regem · 5 months ago

Failing to build coal plants, now they want to go nuclear

Guma Dako · 5 months ago

yes yes another for Sir Wicknell

Good bye Zimbabwe · 5 months ago

damn, can you imagine that nuclear power plant will blow up and leak every 6 months? if they try to build a nuclear plant here in Zim then im leaving Africa , i will move to the opposite side of the globe as close to the north pole as possible ... fvck that sh!t with these clowns here !!!

Guma Doko · 5 months ago

nuclear energy is a good idea, but......we are talking about ZanuPF government here

🌄🧱🍓🎊💞🎂🏆🍑🌽🍕👙 · 5 months ago

hokoyo opposition parties Zimbabwe is going extra miles to deal with hooligans 🤣😂😅😋.that program produces more electricity using less resources but they use uranium ,the need a big dam full of water e.g in Ukraine they build a 100km deep and more than 100km wide dam which was used for that and other purpose which was bombed by Russia and the floods of water 🌊💦 destroyed houses and killed people.the plant can also be used to make military weapons like nuclear bombs and it must be built far away from the community/people Incase the plant might develop fault it kills multitudes of people.it needs billions of dollars but starting from small scale is good we don't need corrupt people.in southern Africa only South Africa uses the plant.south Africa have the plant and if we have that other countries in the region which are against Zimbabwe might consider Zimbabwe as threat.

The Dubious thing · 5 months ago

funny part is South Africa they do have the Nuclear power plant but there is still loadshedding 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🏾

370H-55V O773H🙃 · 5 months ago

They are using the obsolete nuclear plant the plant needs upgrading like what we have have done to Hwange and Kariba

Anonymous · 5 months ago

The nuclear power plant started construction before 1994. They just never developed anything since.

Sol Regem · 5 months ago

South Africa for now they don't have any loadshedding for like 7 or so months, plus their peak demand is pretty much high than ours considering that it is Africa's most industrialised country, so a single nuclear plant isn't enough the country is still heavily reliant on its coal plants.

AMT · 5 months ago

??? 100km deep dam??? wow!!

The suferer · 5 months ago

Maku**** evanhu

ZimSketch · 5 months ago

tichakuvakirai mabridge.... aaah hatina nzizi isu.... nzizi tinochera😳😳😳 that's Zanupf for you

Professor L · 5 months ago

🤣🤣 they are failing to repair worn out machinery at Hwange and the so called Floating Solar project in Kariba Dam,then they say they want to establish a nuclear power plant that costs as much as double they paid on Hwange 7 and 8

Anonymous · 5 months ago

How many crocodiles are going to receive some Zesa?

Anonymous · 5 months ago

The real ones I mean.

Dambudzo · 5 months ago

OK nuclear ndozvakaita nhai

👀👀 · 5 months ago

they just talk and walk away

mthwakazi · 5 months ago

fairytale solution

bulldozer · 5 months ago

hapana chatisina uZim but vanhu vacho munovaziva, maChina pfee paproject

dswaad · 5 months ago

if wishes were horses

Yang Bhai · 5 months ago

Is there nuclear in Zimbabwe?

Guma Doko · 5 months ago

Yes, Zimbabwe has uranium reserves. The country has several uranium deposits, particularly in the Masvingo and Matabeleland North provinces. Some of the notable uranium deposits in Zimbabwe include: 1. _Masvingo Uranium Project_: Located in the Masvingo province, this project has estimated reserves of 10,000 tonnes of uranium oxide. 2. _Kanyemba Uranium Deposit_: Situated in the Mashonaland Central province, this deposit has estimated reserves of 2,500 tonnes of uranium oxide. 3. _Bikita Uranium Deposit_: Located in the Masvingo province, this deposit has estimated reserves of 1,200 tonnes of uranium oxide. 4. _Kamativi Uranium Deposit_: Situated in the Matabeleland North province, this deposit has estimated reserves of 1,000 tonnes of uranium oxide. Zimbabwe's uranium reserves are estimated to be around 45,000 tonnes, with some sources suggesting even higher figures. However, the development of these reserves has been hindered by various factors, including lack of investment, infrastructure challenges, and environmental concerns. It's worth noting that Zimbabwe has not yet started commercial uranium mining, but the government has expressed interest in developing the sector to diversify the country's economy and reduce dependence on other minerals like gold and platinum.

Sir African · 5 months ago

@Guma Doko. Binga still has mud and pole school kana mapedza to tangira ipapo

Tintin · 5 months ago

🤣🤣🤣