Nuclear expert calls for a Plant in Ghana

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Erasmus 9 years ago

might kill the malaria mosquito's.

might kill the malaria mosquito's.
Concerned 9 years ago

Wouldn't that be nice too.

"Nuclear expert" wonders why it hasn't been done....well, maybe because it is a bad idea.

The costs and risks involved, especially for a country like Ghana where we are so incompetent, even ou ...
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Wouldn't that be nice too.

"Nuclear expert" wonders why it hasn't been done....well, maybe because it is a bad idea.

The costs and risks involved, especially for a country like Ghana where we are so incompetent, even our only oil refinery is broken, but we are confused on how to fix it and refine our own oil.

In this country you want to build a life or death plant; where if water for cooling goes off, if power for pumping cooling water goes off, people die. In this country where brain drain has taken all the good experts abroad (hence this expert is all we have left), in this country were we frequently see facilities breakdown and never function again (TOR)... it is here you want to spend $3billion building nuclear with money we don't have and will have to borrow which will lead to greater inflation and pressure on development in other areas ($3billion on nuclear is $3billion away from roads, farming, etc.)

The rich countries have nuclear because it is expensive to run. The cost per kilowatt is marginally lowest I will admit, but external costs are also high. In fact, those same rich countries that built nuclear, are NOW replacing those same nuclear plants with alternatives (wind and solar) - no one is building new plants, but it is now that our "experts" feel it's right to go down this course - FOOLS, simply fools with no original thoughts and ideas. Like all politicians in Ghana, these experts only know how to open their mouths to get attention
Concerned 9 years ago

..also (I've stopped ranting)

Why can't we just focus on doing one thing right. Here we are building our oil industry, complete with several oil and gas power generation facilities currently operating and those currently b ...
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..also (I've stopped ranting)

Why can't we just focus on doing one thing right. Here we are building our oil industry, complete with several oil and gas power generation facilities currently operating and those currently being built. Let's finish these, let's start making some money, then after we use our oil to get rich, THEN lets use the resources that WE'LL ACTUALLY HAVE to go about developing the next area of our economy

It makes no sense to be building an oil based industry and then even without realizing the full potential there, moving to something else like Nuclear. It's time to focus and do something right.
ffonky 9 years ago

stop this nuclear ideal, we´ve not reach the technology standard

stop this nuclear ideal, we´ve not reach the technology standard
BlackC 9 years ago

Professor Benjamin Nyarko kindly give us an update on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and how Japan is handling everything so far?

Developing nations are going away from Nuclear. Solar, at least, is more flexible and in ...
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Professor Benjamin Nyarko kindly give us an update on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and how Japan is handling everything so far?

Developing nations are going away from Nuclear. Solar, at least, is more flexible and installed on houses, warehouses, government buildings, etc. a lot quicker than waiting years for a Nuclear Power plant. This type of cheap power isn't worth it. Ask Japan.
impromptus 9 years ago

From cocoa to timber and now oil - we still can't see our arse even when the lights are on. What a continent and people?

From cocoa to timber and now oil - we still can't see our arse even when the lights are on. What a continent and people?
impromptus 9 years ago

We can have everything except brains and suffer in an abundance

We can have everything except brains and suffer in an abundance
Lorgo Ligri 9 years ago

Let the Professor look around our failed state institutions and entities and honestly tell us if we are capable of handling such a risky venture. Look at all our state energy establishments and tell us if they're being proper ...
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Let the Professor look around our failed state institutions and entities and honestly tell us if we are capable of handling such a risky venture. Look at all our state energy establishments and tell us if they're being properly maintained or managed efficiently. Nuclear energy looks tempting but, do we want to risk the lives of our people in case of a leak when we can't even manage Volco or the Bui dam? It's going to be a failure and a plain damned surreal one due to our greed and corrupt tendencies. From our past and current records, we're going to mismanage this risky death trap the African way-It's government property so, chop make I chop, who cares?
read it 9 years ago

Several solar Plant would be better for Ghana.

Several solar Plant would be better for Ghana.
dani 9 years ago

IN A COUNTRY THAT CANT PROVIDE ELECTRIC POWER TO THEIR PEOPLE AND ACOUNTRY THAT CANT MANAGE PETRO RESOURCES YOU WANT THEM TO HANDLE NUCLEAR POWER TO KILL ALL OF US?
HELL NO NOT TODAY ,NOT TOMMORROW AND
NOT EVER WE OPPOSE ...
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IN A COUNTRY THAT CANT PROVIDE ELECTRIC POWER TO THEIR PEOPLE AND ACOUNTRY THAT CANT MANAGE PETRO RESOURCES YOU WANT THEM TO HANDLE NUCLEAR POWER TO KILL ALL OF US?
HELL NO NOT TODAY ,NOT TOMMORROW AND
NOT EVER WE OPPOSE ANYTHING TO DO WITH NUCLEAR IN GHANA
KKO 9 years ago

Get rid of the rubbish inn Accra, turn it into electricity, then you can talk about nuclear energy. You can't even get water to wash your sorry arse everyday.How are you going to cool nuclear reactors?

Get rid of the rubbish inn Accra, turn it into electricity, then you can talk about nuclear energy. You can't even get water to wash your sorry arse everyday.How are you going to cool nuclear reactors?
Paa Fitz 9 years ago

Bad idea Prof. Nyarko.
Japan, Germany and even UK are all in the process of reducing dependency on Nuclear Energy. Ghana cannot even take care of its organic wastemanagement at this time, let alone Nuclear Waste.
Please co ...
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Bad idea Prof. Nyarko.
Japan, Germany and even UK are all in the process of reducing dependency on Nuclear Energy. Ghana cannot even take care of its organic wastemanagement at this time, let alone Nuclear Waste.
Please complete a sustainable organic waste management first, and then talk to us about Nuclear Energy.
Ghana has abundant Water, Solar, and Wind resources to generate power capacity to meet all it needs. Please reserve the Nuclear talk now, for Future discussion. A word to the Wise!!!
KWADWO 9 years ago

WITH OUR BAD TRIBALISM AND RELIGIOUS SUPREMACY,NUCLEAR CHEMICALS + A RAWLINGS-LIKE RELIGIOUS FANATIC ARE ALL WE NEED TO CREATE "MANMADE EBOLA", FROM HIM THROWING A RADIOACTIVE BOMB.
PROF., YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, WITH ...
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WITH OUR BAD TRIBALISM AND RELIGIOUS SUPREMACY,NUCLEAR CHEMICALS + A RAWLINGS-LIKE RELIGIOUS FANATIC ARE ALL WE NEED TO CREATE "MANMADE EBOLA", FROM HIM THROWING A RADIOACTIVE BOMB.
PROF., YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, WITH IT BEING YOUR FIELD. YES, WE NEED IT BUT HELL WILL HAVE TO FREEZE FIRST, OR US CHANGING OUR SIDE OF HUMANITY, THE FIRST MAY HAPPEN FIRST.
whatever 9 years ago

The plain fact is that nations relying on nuclear energy are beginning to realise the true cost of their cheap power and are running away from it. There are better alternatives out there and they are finding and creating them ...
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The plain fact is that nations relying on nuclear energy are beginning to realise the true cost of their cheap power and are running away from it. There are better alternatives out there and they are finding and creating them.

Now a little something in an envelope for a long unfulfilled professor will be no small encouragement to get him singing a song past its time won't it?

Plain fact is, it isn't a good time for firms that build nuclear plants so today they remember that continent that they once were hell bent on stopping from having nuclear power for 'cheap' electricity, now can and should be whipped into wanting and baying for nuclear power right? Sorry to say but that professor should be confined to the classroom or be sent abroad.
DAN 9 years ago

and you want nuclear fuel to dispose of???

and you want nuclear fuel to dispose of???
EZEKIEL 9 years ago

DON'T FORGET...if there were NO WHITES in South Africa, NOTHING would have been there! It IS SAD but true!!!

DON'T FORGET...if there were NO WHITES in South Africa, NOTHING would have been there! It IS SAD but true!!!

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