A report on “The Role of Nuclear Energy in Powering Universal Energy Abundance for Emerging Economies” was released on Friday, Dec. 5, surveying the tremendous opportunities to be opened up with the unleashing of nuclear energy in the Global South, including in Africa. While the [report](https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/The-Role-of-Nuclear-Energy-in-Powering-Energy-Abundance-for-Emerging-Economies.pdf says nothing that is not already known, it does serve to profile in great detail the energy situation in the six most advanced nuclear-capable countries, in case studies of Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Rwanda.
Coming, as it does, in the wake of the Oct. 27 warning, issued by two supposedly “pro-nuclear” activists at the Energy for Growth Hub (a Rockefeller Foundation-funded NGO), who [cautioned](https://www.semafor.com/article/10/27/2025/afdb-can-reset-africas-nuclear-power?utm_medium=africa&utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered8&utm_source=newsletterlink that the West was on the verge of losing control of the nuclear development question—this must be seen as the establishment’s “call to arms” of the Western world’s philanthropic (private finance) institutions in response to that wakeup call.
