The Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) in collaboration with Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria would deploy nuclear science and technology to strengthen electric power generation in Nigeria.
Prof. Yusuf-Aminu Ahmed, Chairman NAEC disclosed this during the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Nigeria’s first Nuclear Research Reactor-1 (NNR-1) in Zaria on Thursday.
Ahmed said the experience developed over the years on nuclear power at the centre makes Nigeria ripe and ready to go into the next level of power generation through the nuclear reactor.
“We have used the reactor for research and development over the years and now we are going to use the reactor for the purpose of generating electricity.
“President Bola Tinubu has already given the commission a mandate to see how it contributes in the clean energy sphere of Nigeria and the nuclear energy programme of Nigeria would participate,’’ Ahmed said.
He explained that the time for the project would not be open for the public; however, Ahmed added that international partners and vendors were working closely with the commission over the project.
He also said that intergovernmental agreements were signed with some of the vendors on the nuclear power in Nigeria and very soon President Tinubu would make an announcement on the issue.