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Time to consider nuclear power - Energy Minister

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  • Akonoba 2 11 years ago

    There was a commission of enquiry on GHANA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, after the overthrow of Nkrumah. Our nuclear energy programme was scuttled by these same corrupt professors. I don't think this professor is serious.

  • Afful, Hamburg 11 years ago

    Akonoba 2 have you not read that worldwide the only people who support nuclear energy are those who have invested large sums of Money in the business and are afraid of losing their wealth ? Nuclear energy is a technology of t ...
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  • max france 11 years ago

    AFFUL Please the whiteman is allready ahead of us in everything ok. our engneers are doing notting good for the state. ok. i dont think we have engneers in africa.

  • Charles A. 11 years ago

    In Ghana, we lack the culture of maintenance and nuclear power is not for such people.

  • Repugnant. 11 years ago

    They called Job 600 white elephant. Akosombo Dam; cut your coat according to your size! Tema Harbor, Oponko Abodame, Accra Trade Fair; stampede abamou. We are simply shallow, cynical and stupid! Go Mr energy minister may Nkru ...
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  • yaa baby 11 years ago

    it is due for Ghana to go nuclear.

  • Kofi Dee 11 years ago

    This is a lazy thinker, there're other options...

  • joel 11 years ago

    Please stop waisting our time mr Buah. WE can not even sustain our folks with common water and you are talking of Nuclear energy. You might have been joking.

  • Nana Butubutu Kantanka 11 years ago

    This man is out of his senses. We can not even keep our sanitation as people to make our environment clean, how can we talk about nuclear?

    The minister seriously need his head examine by Agya Kwaku Bossam for some herbal c ...
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  • Repugnant. 11 years ago

    Who invited your opinion fool, continue to build your wooden airplane coffins, and waste your precious time doing funerals. We are no more a "funeral and damirifa due! due! people we are awake and shall go to sleep no more yo ...
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  • Repugnant. 11 years ago

    Mr Energy minister you are the best and a breath of fresh air. You are the one we have been waiting for and truly ready for prime time! I knew it was going to take another Nzema soul, charisma and pride, so thank you so very ...
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  • Solo 11 years ago

    Mr. minister we are behind you, even our independence, tema motor way, akosombo dam, tema harbour etc people oppose it, with the mind that we are inferio, when Ghana become independent all other african countries followed, we ...
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  • Duodu -Düsseldorf 11 years ago

    Solo,if you really think you need nuclear power then you are in deed inferior to the whites. You see, they have realised what a foolish idea it was to have started it at all. Intelligent people now talk about using sunshine,w ...
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  • SULE 11 years ago

    NUCLEAR IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

  • KWABENA TAMALE 11 years ago

    we cannot even keep our streets clean, we have been unable to make akosombo well now we want nuclear energy- pls dont kill us. Even Japan with all its scientists mcould not forestall the disastar of its nuclear reactor. Pls b ...
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  • CAN'T EVEN MANAGE TOILETS 11 years ago

    FOOLISH GHANAIANS, WE CAN'T EVEN MANAGE TOILETS, LET ALONE A NUCLEAR PLANT ,

  • HOW DO WE MANAGE NUCLEAR PLANT 11 years ago

    AFRICANS CANNOT MANAGE NUCLEAR PLANTS,WE'LL ALL BE KILLED

  • POPE 11 years ago

    NUCLEAR, NU CLEAR THE BEST AND COST OF ISOPTOL IS GETTING EXPENSIVE TO HELP CANCER PATIENTS GLOBALLY AND GHANA NEED TO SERVE IT ENERGY ISSUES AS WELL AS MEDICAL RESEARCH. THAT IS WHY GHANA NEED THE NUCLEAR ENERGY, CLEAN, CLEA ...
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  • yen asem hwe 11 years ago

    Stupid minister why not consider solar er
    energy?Even the dedveloped nations are k
    looking for alternative of producing power.

  • Kobena 11 years ago

    What an illiterate idiot! Where exactly in Ghana do you plan to build this nucclear power plant? A country that cannot dispose of sh** and p*** properly, a country where tap water for domestic use runs one night a month in pa ...
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  • agyeman 11 years ago

    Young man minister you better do one thing at a time. Solve the current problem then consider your dream later. Don't just dream. Plan. Input the current situation adequately then draw a time plan of about ten years for your ...
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  • Ogya behye wo 11 years ago

    Ghana should not try nuclear energy.You can not even manage simple things. How much more nuclear. Don't come and wipe us out from the face of the world. Ghanaians don't trust our non performance leaders to handle nuclear ener ...
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  • A,D,A,G 11 years ago

    they can manage zero. Fools, they think, God will do the maintanance for them. Instead of them to invest in solar panels to generate electricity, no, they rely only on Akosombo Dam. If Kwame Nkrumah were alive he will have ...
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  • Kow Bentum 11 years ago

    Even Japan with all her expertise in science and technology is forgoing nuclear becuase of the Fukoshima earthquake and sunami. What does this guy who used to work at CSAAC in Maryland, US, know about nuclear energy? I do not ...
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  • Cynthia 11 years ago

    Nuclear Energy for Mother Ghana? I think this is not the right time. Why can't we make use of the free Sun God has blessed us with. We can't even manage Hydro-Energy and Thermal Energy, how much more Nuclear? You might be jok ...
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  • A,D,A,G 11 years ago

    how about ghanaians with the same mind-set like you not come together, mobilize funds and know-how to produce a private solar energy in ghana?. Count me. When we depend and wait on those officials, we wait in vain. Nothing ...
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  • faaganda 11 years ago

    EXCELLENT IDEA, HOWEVER, USING THE WORDS CONSIDERING AND TO VENTURE INTO MAKES ME THINK HE IS NOT PRIVY TO KWAME NKRUMAH VISION AND BLUEPRINT FOR ENERGY FOR GHANA. GHANA HAD ALREADY RESEARCHED INTO NUCLEAR ENERGY ESTABLISHED ...
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  • MIKE 11 years ago

    THE WHITES NOW RELEASED NP IS NOT SO GOOD SO THEY WANT MAKE PROFIT IN AFRICA BY SELLING US THEIR TEC MEANWHILE WHAT AFRICA HAS IN ENERGY IN TERMS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IS SOLAR POWER. THE WEST DONT HAVE OUR SUN POWER SO ...
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  • MIKE 11 years ago

    YOU CANNT EVEN MANAGE THE SHIT IN YOUR BACKYARD! AND U THINKING OF NP? THESE ARE THE FUNKEN EVIL TYPES OF LEADERS IN AFRICA? THE STENCH IN YOUR HOMETOWN AS THEY SHIT ALONG THE SHORE MUST FIRST BE MANAGED BEFORE GOING NP!! I ...
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  • RENAULTZ 11 years ago

    GHANA CANNOT EVEN MANAGE BASIC HOUSEHOLD GABBAGE AND U ARE TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR. CAN U HANDLE NUCLEAR WASTE? I THINK THIS GOOD FOR NOTHING POLITICIAN IS A JOKER.

  • Nii Lante Okunka 11 years ago

    I couldn't have agreed with you any better,Mike.Our capital city is drenched in filth and stench and this idiotic Energy Minister with ties to looters cloaked as political entrepreneurs is talking about nuclear energy for Gha ...
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  • Dr Gerry Wolff 11 years ago

    Nuclear power in Ghana would be a big mistake. Many countries around the world are recognising now that wind power, solar power and other renewables can meet all their energy needs, and more, without the many problems of nucl ...
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  • ASEM NNI FIE 11 years ago

    THEY- THE SO-CALLED DEAD MINDED APOSTLES WITH THEIR TOTALLY CONFUSED LEADER JOHN MAHAMA, SHARING THE LOOT, PROPOSE ALWAYS THE UNTHINKABLE. THIS STUPID GOVERNMENT THAT CANNOT MANAGE SIMPLE GENERATORS IS NOW DREAMING IN DAYLIG ...
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  • daladam 11 years ago

    GHANA GOVRENMENT CANT HANDLE WATER OR TOILET OR CUSTOM OFFICERS AT THE AIRPORT SO HOW CAN YOU RUN NUCLEAR PLANT . FORGET ANY STUPID IDEA YOU GET FROM IRAN BROTHER

  • Kofi 11 years ago

    We can't even handle plastic waste. How can we handle nuclear waste?

  • A,D,A,G 11 years ago

    it will be a disaster for any african country to use nuclear power. Sustainable energy like Solar Energy, Windmill will be the best solutions for all tropical countries. Life expectancy in Ghana and in africa in general is ...
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  • Tibaa 11 years ago

    We cannot even manage traditional power sources let alone nuclear!,,,,

  • Pam 11 years ago

    FOOLISH IDEA! WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A HEALTH AND SAFETY COUNCIL AND YOU TALK OF RUNNING A NUCLEAR PLANT. We can not run our thermal plants effectively,then you talk of nuclear energy. Are you serious? Even the advanced countries ...
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  • PIYAM 11 years ago

    HAHAAAA! GHANA. EVERYONE WANTS A CUT FOR HIMSELF SO THE PROFESSORS THERE WILL ADVOCATE IT AFTER ALL IN THE LONG RUN IT IS THE CITIZENRY WHO PAYS THE PRICE. WE HAVE ABUNDANT SUNSHINE AND WIND. WHY CANT THE THE SO CALLED WESTER ...
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