Yukiya Amano is expected from 17th to 20th January 2018 to among other activities commission newly acquired radiotherapy machines at Uganda Cancer Institute.
Uganda is gearing up towards hosting the inaugural Future Energy Uganda conference where it is expected to showcase the enormous energy investment potential. The inaugural conference in Kampala from 12-13 September 2017 is expected to attract investors and decision makers to explore areas of renewable energy like geothermal and solar that are still under exploited.
Experts from several African countries are in Uganda to discuss how to safely apply nuclear technology in agriculture, energy generation and medication.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA announced that they are to undertake a study aimed at exploring mobile tools to combat food fraud and contamination. Food fraud and contamination is emerging as another form of counterfeiting or falsification of products posing serious public health threats and loss of billions of dollars globally.
Uganda has vowed not to back any country that promotes the use of nuclear energy for warfare. The State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem, speaking shortly after a meeting with visiting Iranian Foreign Affairs minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, says government has no problem with nuclear energy, as long as it is used only for peaceful purposes.
The latest development that comes as governments meet at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw Poland has not gone unnoticed. Some protestors outside the conference urged Uganda and other countries not to go into nuclear as a form of Energy.
