DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 19 -- TANZANIA is charting a bold new course towards energy security, with nuclear technology as a cornerstone of its future energy mix strategy.

With an estimated 57 trillion cubic feet in reserves, natural gas accounted for over 40 per cent of the countrys grid capacity for a long time, but with the recent commissioning of the 2,115MW Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant on the Rufiji River, the capacity of hydropower has surged to over 60 per cent.

The commissioning put Tanzanias national power generation capacity at 4,646MW against a peak demand of about 2,271MW.

But considering that electricity could be exported to other countries just like any other commodity, the government is already considering more generation o...