Senegal Plans to Co-operate With France For Its First Nuclear Power Plant.

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Nuclear energy pursuit

Senegal is well on course to setting up a nuclear power plant with the help of its former colonial master, France, which could potentially resolve the country’s ailing energy problem.

AFP reported that Energy Minister Samuel Sarr at a conference hosted by France which aimed at promoting civilian use of atomic energy, said that France and Senegal were working together and that a plant should be online by 2020.

"It is with this timetable in mind that the production of nuclear generated electricity is expected and our country is already getting ready for this," AFP quoted Mr Sarr. He said that the reactor project would be preceded by a major infrastructure development plan between 2012 and 2020.

According to the report, if successful, the project could make Senegal Africa's second nuclear energy producing country after South Africa.

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