缺乏领导力阻碍了尼日利亚的核路线图

[ABUJA, NIGERIA] Lack of leadership is frustrating Nigeria’s 2000 target of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity from anuclearplant by 2017, experts say.

核科学家和工程师帮助尼日利亚在2000年开发了路线图，以生成核18beplay to help address the country’s power challenges.

Seventeen years after the launch of the ambitious nuclear programme that was widely criticised by civil society groups, thegovernment甚至还没有获得植物的地点。

“ [现任]政府迫切需要政治意愿获得路线图。”

Turner Isoun, Nigeria’s former science and technology minister

第一核电站according to the road map, was to begin generating electricity this year.

In the road map, experts allotted 2005-2012 for personnel and infrastructure development; 2006-2008 for design certification, regulatory and licensing approvals; 2007-2015 for construction and start-up; and 2017 for hooking to the national grid to meet government’s desire of generating electricity from a nuclear power reactor.

Vincent Achibong, a nuclear engineer based in Nigeria, told。Netthis month (15 February) in an exclusive interview that the set targets failed because of lack offunding, absence of competent professionals and in-fighting between the various government agencies on who has the mandate to supervise the programme.

“The various nuclear line agencies, commissions and the ministry of science andtechnology正在互相控制谁控制该计划，因此我们无法取得进展。” Achibong解释说。

Turner Isoun, former Nigeria science and technology minister who initiated the programme, tells。Net: “The [successive] governments have failed to provide the needed leadership to actualise the programme. There is an urgent need for political will on the part of [the current] government for the attainment of the road map. Road maps or timeframes are estimates.”

He adds, “The programme is still alive [although] some of the estimates have outlived their timeframes. But there is still hope.”

据伊索恩称，尼日利亚原子能委员会是collaboratingwith Nigerian universities for the training of the needed personnel for the programme and urged the involvement of the private sector.

But Nnimmo Bassey, president of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, one of the civil society organisations against the programme, tells。Netthat Nigeria does not need the programme.

“Nigeria has no business with nuclear power. We should be focussed on energy production from renewable sources. Nuclear [energy] is expensive and very vulnerable considering Nigeria’s track record in maintenance of facilities,” Bassey says.

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