Kenya’s nuclear energy agency has submitted impact studies for the country’s first commercial nuclear power station and said construction of the first reactor will take about seven years.

According to local media reports, the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency, (NuPEA) said in a regulatory filing with the National Environment Management Authoritythat the facility will have an initial capacity of 1,000 MW.

NuPEA reportedly said the 1,000-km Tana River, which meets the Indian Ocean on Kenya’s east coast, is the preferred location because it is not prone to earthquakes. Other sites under consideration include the Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana basins.