The IAEA and two African universities deploy sediment tracking tech in Kenya

August 29, 2024, 7:02AMNuclear News
The 10-member team that collaborated to survey sediments in Kenya’s Kilindini Harbor. (Photo: IAEA)

Kilindini Harbor in Mombasa, Kenya, is East Africas largest international seaport. But rapid development of the Kenyan coastal zone is changing sediment distribution and dispersal patterns in the region, and shifting sediment poses safety and efficiency risks to ships in the harbor. With help from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a team of researchers from Kenya and South Africa has deployed a unique system to measure natural radionuclides in beach and aquatic sediments and map sediment transportation in the region. The IAEA described the mission in a photo essay published August 21.

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