About Kelvin Kemm

Dr Kelvin Kemm is a nuclear physicist and CEO of Nuclear Africa (Pty) Ltd, a project management company based in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievers Award of the National Science and Technology Forum of South Africa. He does international consultancy work in strategic development.

Small modular reactors advance in the nuclear world

Nuclear power is the future of mankind. The world’s electricity insecurity experienced since 2020 has shown the way forward with great clarity.

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|2022-05-12T10:19:57-04:00May 12th, 2022|Comments Off on Small modular reactors advance in the nuclear world

Small modular reactors – designing nuclear energy for African landscapes

small nuclear reactors offer a huge amount of flexibility; and they run continuously, independent of day or night; rain or sunshine; wind or no wind.

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|2021-11-22T10:54:49-05:00November 23rd, 2021|Comments Off on Small modular reactors – designing nuclear energy for African landscapes

The real lessons of Fukushima

Lesson #1: People died from forced evacuations, not radiation.

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|2021-03-27T13:23:40-04:00March 27th, 2021|Comments Off on The real lessons of Fukushima

Climategate: Ten years later

Climate alarmists are still promoting junk science, fossil fuel bans and wealth redistribution

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|2019-11-01T14:06:24-04:00November 1st, 2019|Comments Off on Climategate: Ten years later

Electricity in the realm of the Lion King

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, especially Pebble Bed Modular Reactors, are Africa’s best energy future.

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|2019-09-25T08:18:56-04:00September 25th, 2019|Comments Off on Electricity in the realm of the Lion King

Nuclear scientist: HBO’s Chernobyl a lesson in sensationalism

HBO's melting faces and radioactive humans are no more realistic than the Walking Dead's zombie cannibalism.  Not to be forgotten: Modern nuclear energy is clean, abundant, safe, affordable and sorely needed.

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|2019-06-19T09:56:16-04:00June 19th, 2019|Comments Off on Nuclear scientist: HBO’s Chernobyl a lesson in sensationalism

Warming radicals blind to science and history

It is evident from history that periods of global warming led to health, welfare, and prosperity. Global cooling led to crop failure, disease, and hardship. That's why radicals want history expunged.

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|2015-11-19T18:14:43-05:00November 19th, 2015|87 Comments

The lesson of Fukushima — Nuclear energy is safe

An outdated design was able to take nature's toughest punch. A nuclear physicist explains why this should inspire strong confidence in current nuclear design.

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|2015-02-19T10:13:47-05:00February 16th, 2015|205 Comments

Physicist: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster

Anti-nuclear activists do not want the public to know the truth. Fukushima showed that a nuclear plant can take the maximum punch of nature’s brutality. Yet the media and the anti-nukes enjoy stoking the fear.

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|2013-10-17T11:34:50-04:00October 12th, 2013|1,567 Comments

The carbon trading money tree

When it appears easy to make a lot of money from something simple then in all probability something is wrong. The economic rules which govern the world usually dictate that it is not easy to make a lot of money with not much effort.

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|2013-01-11T06:29:31-05:00January 7th, 2013|4 Comments

Alice in Wonderland science

Climate propaganda regularly demands we accept impossible science. “There's no use trying,” Alice said. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Especially with the Doha climate change confab in full swing, taxpayers, newspaper readers – and anyone dreaming of a better life through reliable, affordable energy – deserves more honest reporting and more science-based energy and environmental policies than they have been getting.

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|2012-12-06T01:45:19-05:00December 6th, 2012|5 Comments

Does the UN have Africa in an emissions arm lock?

The rich kids are trying to push Africa around, bullying African countries into accepting their opinions and, even worse, adopting their “solutions.” Africa should resist the moral and psychological pressure being exerted on it to agree to binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions. Any such agreement would place African countries at the mercy of rich UN nations without any benefit accruing to Africa.

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|2012-12-04T11:34:51-05:00December 1st, 2012|2 Comments

Media ignore German coal plants, tout propaganda film ‘Fuel’

It is amazing how biased the international media is when it comes to reporting on energy generation, specifically electricity. In mid-August, Germany opened a new 2200MW coal-fired power station near Cologne, and virtually not a word has been said about it. This dearth of reporting is even more surprising when one considers that Germany has said building new coal plants is necessary because electricity produced by wind and solar has turned out to be unaffordably expensive and unreliable. In a deteriorating economic situation, Germany's new environment minister, Peter Altmaier, who is as politically close to Chancellor Angela Merkel as it gets, [...]

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|2012-09-17T11:13:29-04:00August 28th, 2012|2 Comments

After Rio – what next?

The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20” comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ever since 1992 I have watched the eco-evolution taking place.

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|2012-12-19T10:33:54-05:00June 29th, 2012|Comments Off on After Rio – what next?

Rio wrapup: People matter (but not to the UN?)

The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20” comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ever since 1992 I have watched the eco-evolution taking place. There is a good side and a bad side. The good side is that general world environmental awareness has been enhanced. That is definitely good. But there is still so much to be done, especially in poor countries where [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:32:15-04:00June 29th, 2012|Comments Off on Rio wrapup: People matter (but not to the UN?)
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