The U.S. and Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding about civilian nuclear cooperation, the U.S. State Department announced late last week.
The two countries now have what is formally known as a “Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” according to State’s press release, dated Thursday.
The memorandum does not indicate any immediate transfer of nuclear know-how or technology between the friendly countries, but it does make it easier for government officials, industry executives and academics from the U.S. and Kenya to lay the foundation for such transfers.
Bonnie Jenkins, under secretary of state for arms control and international security, signed the memorandum for the United States and Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua, cabinet secretary of foreign and diaspora affairs, signed for Kenya, State said.
The Joe Biden administration has talked consistently about exporting U.S. clean-energy technology and senior officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration have repeatedly and publicly touted their role in that White House initiative since inauguration day 2021.
