About Us
NUeB means, generally, Nuclear Energy is the Better energy — period. We exist to interlink people around that idea and to test it in the open.
Our Story
NUeB Kenya was founded on a simple yet profound realisation: the transition to nuclear energy is as much a human and diplomatic challenge as it is a technical one. In the complex landscape of African energy, we identified a critical missing link — the bridge between the scientific community, the general public and the institutions that carry Kenya's development agenda.
Our people are a blend of energy specialists, communicators, environmental thinkers, lawyers and social scientists, united by one mission: that nuclear technology is understood, debated and used safely, securely and sustainably for the benefit of all Africans.
NUeB stands for Nuclear Energy is the Better. All energy sources have their trade-offs, and that does not mean they cannot be used to advance national and regional development.
Our Philosophy
Without reliable, affordable power, industrialisation is a dream and poverty is a permanent state. Everything we do rests on three beliefs.
No single person, institution or agency can carry the energy conversation alone. We put professionals, county leaders, industry, academics, civil society and communities in the same room — and keep them talking long after the launch event is over.
Climate & Environment
A stable climate and a developed Africa are not competing goals. Firm, low-carbon electricity is how you get both.
Roughly 12 grams of CO₂-equivalent per kilowatt-hour across the whole lifecycle — comparable to wind and below solar PV, according to IPCC assessments.
Nuclear produces more electricity per hectare than any other source, leaving far more land for farming, forests and wildlife.
No smoke, no soot, no sulphur. Clean air is a public health benefit that arrives on day one of operation.
Unlike fossil waste, which goes into the atmosphere, nuclear waste is small in volume, solid, tracked and stored under regulation.
ESG & Sustainability
We hold ourselves to the same standard we ask of the sector.
We advocate for carbon-free, land-light generation and for honest, published assessment of every environmental trade-off — including the ones that are inconvenient for our own case.
Local jobs, local skills and local voice. Communities are participants in the energy conversation, not an audience for it.
Transparency, anti-corruption and clear boundaries. We publish who we are, what we do, and what we deliberately do not do.
Our Goals
These are ambitions, not achievements. We publish them so people can measure us against them.
Advocacy in action
Long before the conversation reached boardrooms, it was placards, marches and conversations with strangers.
Berlin, 2021
In 2021 we stood with campaigners at the Brandenburg Gate asking Germany not to shut down its remaining reactors. The plants closed anyway. What followed is now well documented: coal and lignite burned longer than planned, emissions that should have kept falling did not, and households and industry absorbed some of the highest electricity prices in Europe during the energy crisis that followed.
We share this not to score points, but because Kenya is making its own long-term energy choices now — and decisions made on fear are expensive to reverse.
Watch the Berlin appeal →Sustainable Development
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the world's shared to-do list to 2030. Reliable, carbon-free electricity sits underneath many of them — here is where the atom actually shows up.
Highlighted goals are those where firm, low-carbon electricity is a direct enabler.
Firm, carbon-free electricity that runs day and night, at a stable long-run cost, is the clearest contribution nuclear makes to the goals.
About 12 gCO₂e per kilowatt-hour across the full lifecycle, against 820 g for coal — the atom displaces the emissions that matter most.
Nuclear heat powers desalination, and clean air from non-combustion generation is a public-health gain from day one of operation.
Long-life, high-skill industrial jobs and dense generation that leaves far more land for farming, forests and wildlife.
“Nuclear energy is the source that can make it all work — not just electricity production, but job creation, economic revitalization, and decarbonization.”
