Alfred, Brusaw and Oliu (2006) indicate that journalism is a profession where journalists are always surrounded by factual information in their ordinary operations. This is mainly due to the fact that most of them report what they are able to see and therefore are undoubtedly correct. The notion of availing the factual information has been the key icon in making media the major eye and a peephole that can be used to focus at the intrinsic connotation of life systems, events and developments that could otherwise remain forever untold. However, some occurrences generally get beyond one’s comprehension capacity and therefore lack the simplicity of expression that can be used to relay the message.
Media reports on nuclear energy adoption, risks and benefits have revealed various notions and raised many pertinent questions concerning its significance. As it has been hard to separate bone and marrow, the factual details of major occurrences that see commitments aimed at developing a nuclear power plant project fail or succeed in Kenya throws one into a state of confusion. Nation media report published on 18 September 2013 headlined ‘Japan to be nuclear-free as last reactor switched off’ presents the risks of nuclear energy on the environment. In it, AFP reported that while Kenyan government was committed to embarking on the path to boosting electric energy via a nuclear source, the ramifications of nuclear energy were as as evident as the Furukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in 2011 (AFP, 2015).
Ordinarily, denial of a major crisis like the Furukushima catastrophe is a major taboo, presently it is the last of the last aspects that the world will allow under whatever circumstances. However, the media in Kenya in its reporting of the role of nuclear energy project points out that it is a major progress towards solving electric energy supply shortage in Kenya (Limo, 2013). Limo (2013) indicates that most media reporting on nuclear energy adoption following various disasters are negative and such reports are out of conventional or unconventional capacity to express the correct information necessary to relay the situation as it. Referring to the situation as ‘risky’Agina and Nyabiage of the Standard Newspaper (19 April 2015) indicated that the nuclear project plan in Kenya as opposed to pursuing cleaner and safer forms of energy is a major risks as most nations are slowing down their nuclear activities. The coverage of the technicalities under the headline Kenya pursues nuclear power as rest of the world slows down over risks in the standard newspaper cites Japan shutting down nuclear plants and Germany shutting her nuclear plants by 2022 (Limo, 2013).
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