Rwanda / Parliament Approves Plans For Nuclear Research Centre And 10-MW Reactor

Agreement was signed with Russia in 2019
Parliament Approves Plans For Nuclear Research Centre And 10-MW Reactor
The nuclear research centre is likely to be built in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Photo courtesy Emmanuel Kwizera/Wikimedia.
Rwanda’s parliament has approved government plans to build a nuclear research centre and a small nuclear reactor with installed capacity of up to 10MW in the capital Kigali, local press reports said.

In October 2019 Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced it had signed an agreement to build a nuclear science and technologies centre in the African country. The agreement was signed at the AtomExpo meeting in in Sochi, Russia.

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