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Nuclear Energy production can solve energy crisis - Expert

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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    We resort to gimmicks. Just like trying to desalinate sea water while the largest body of fresh water empties into the ser!

  • Angie 9 years ago

    ECG can't even manage the power plants in the country because of their ineptness & you're talking about nuclear. I can't even fathom when a nuclear disaster strikes.

  • menka 9 years ago

    Angie say some and he's called an expert..no technical evidence to support what he's saying...typical of a gh politician, hope he doesnt turn out to be one

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 9 years ago

    Is Dr. Robert B.M. Sogbadji a fool, or just plain stupid ?

    I just can't fathom why he should even prescribe such to a failed state like Ghana.

    Is he aware that Ghana cannot even our tackle her solid and liquid waste cha ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    facts are facts , until the energy demand is solved with a nuclear power plant we can never develop our full potential . the problem is our govt is not up to the task with all the corruption and bribery so we would end up wit ...
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  • JKofi Panyin 9 years ago

    We have useless leaders. sorry to say that.we cannot even manage our sanitation..and you are talking about managing a nuclear plant?

  • Philip Owusu-Adjapong 9 years ago

    Nuclear energy for Ghana? Who will man such a gargantuan & sophisticated project when we cannot manage such simple hydro projects as Akosombo & Bui? A catastrophy ten times worse than Chernoble will happen in Ghana just a da ...
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  • Ghanavi 9 years ago

    Nuclear Energy? Seriously? "Talk is really cheap" So keep on talking.

  • WATCHER 9 years ago

    What are you suggesting, Nuclear energy in Ghana? Please, don't suggest that. We don't have capabilities to handle nuclear energy in Ghana.

    Think of these reckless and corrupt politicians we have in Ghana. The amount that ...
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  • Opong Kyekyeku 9 years ago

    Ghana can barely maintain hydro dams and hydrocarbon powered generators how much more nuclear powered generators?

  • Favour 9 years ago

    Most Ghanaians can provide 10 valid reasons why a project will fail without even trying. This attitude if not changed will leave us behind in development.

  • Lala 9 years ago

    And can u blame Ghanaians for having doubt or hope in our leaders? Simply take a look around the country & you'll see why people don't have much faith in the government to achieve anything.

  • menka 9 years ago

    Favour i wonder if you understand what's goin on here. We cant do try and error with such technology. you invest in it knowing it will work and benefit from it or you dnt. It's Engineering nothing like try n error

  • Favour 9 years ago

    If you don't try it how would you know if there would be an error? This is the problem I was referring to.

  • Village Food 9 years ago

    Favour u are an idiot do i know what radiation leakage means?.Let them build the nuclear in your house.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Tell me one thing that has been successful in Ghana. Our history firmly supports our attitude. You caanot blame us. Blind hope is stupidity.

  • Dr. Mensah-Bonsu 9 years ago

    I find it very irresponsible when 'experts' use unqualified comparisons to come to such conclusions. France has more nuclear energy 'stations' than any western European country and yet is not the strongest economy in Europe. ...
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  • menka 9 years ago

    Doc bravo... right on point!! I made the same argument some few years ago. Most of the the countries he mentioned have either retired their nuclear plants or in the process of doing so. these are Experts trained in a field wi ...
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  • Mensah-Bonsu 9 years ago

    Thank you, Mr/Ms Menka. I hope many more of us will stand up to 'experts' who make such sweeping statements not backed by any research. Let's all demand a national debate on this issue and not leave it to the whims of some ir ...
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  • readi 2 dye 9 years ago

    According to experts One minute of captured sun rays can electrify the whole world for a day... One year can electrify the whole world for 27 years...questions is, without copying the aliens solar panels, how can we as Africa ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Readi 2 Dye, installing rooftop photovoltaic cells is not rocket science or brain surgery.
    We can do it, if we have the political will.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Thank you Dr. Mensah-Bonsu. If you have time, please consult Al Gore's "The Turning Point."
    Rolling Stone, July 3-17, 2014. Or go to Rollingstone.com

    And reach me at ampasoft@aol.com
    Once again thank you for your insight ...
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  • Mensah-Bonsu 9 years ago

    Many thanks Marcus. I'll do exactly what you have suggested and also contact you over e-mail when I have a 'window' of free time. I am currently immersed in 2 parallel studies on population explosion in urban centres in Afric ...
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  • Ebo Africaba 9 years ago

    Have you Ghanaians heard of the nuclear disaster Three Mile Island in the US and the disaster in Russia? Bob Marley said it best "in the midst of abundance of water, the fool is always thirsty." In the abundance of the sun's ...
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  • Walantu Walansa 9 years ago

    I beg you oooh! Please don´t bring Nuclear energy to Ghana. We can´t even do maintenance for a hydro electric fuelled energy production. Ghana will kill all humanity. We don´t have the experts and even the discipline to ru ...
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  • Ampadu 9 years ago

    Minister = Toyota 4x4^V8 + 18 yrs uni girl { Sunday omo-tuo,@ Ada beach resort} 3-4 mobile phones # big vocabulary for nothing = a typical Ghana minister.

  • Village Food 9 years ago

    Ampadu hahahah funny but true

  • Kakaiku 9 years ago

    Construct a nuclear plant in Ghana when we don't even have a sewage system and can't manage a mere electricity plant? No comment.

    NOTE: Government is spending too much good money on that silly Kwabenya plant.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    It looks like the issue of Ghana's underdevelopment is compared to that of a child that refuses locomotion. China is taking over U.S. as the most financial power by next year. I am of the view that Germany has not been tellin ...
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  • menka 9 years ago

    Kwame, when was the last a nuclear power plant was commissioned in the states? 1970 right? and how many have been retired over the same period? check out europe and canada. Nuclear is not the only alternative for smelter, if ...
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  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    Like Homowo Festival,the talk comes in intervals on Nuclear Energy for Ghana!Great! We have the sun 365days/year and are NOT USING IT.We can't even MANAGE our Sanitation,can't manage our water supply, NOT EVEN KVIP and we are ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Don't even go there, Dr. sogbadji. Not with our attitude of culture of low maintenance, coupled with poor education. We should rely principally upon photovoltaic energy in providing electricity..

    Can someone just inform t ...
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  • NANA YAW 9 years ago

    Rooftop PV systems sound like excellent idea; we can get our military to install them for a fee.

  • Abaka Quagranie 9 years ago

    Maybe in Nkrumah or Kuffour time. Not Now. We can't afford a lightwater reactor so try Germany's example. They were scared stupid after Japan FUKUSHIMA accident so they deployed multiple Solar even with the little sun they ha ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 9 years ago

    Have you thought about the nuclear waste?We can`t even manage our normal refuse!

  • Ghanaba Paa tee 9 years ago

    If we cannot manage a Dam, in which will our leaders manage a nuclear plant? bad advice, selfish and wicked. all these holds doctor degree, dr. Sogbadji u have got it wrong with all your degrees. Why don't you suggest solar s ...
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  • Alex 9 years ago

    Most of you guys talk without facts. Nuclear waste is not the rubbish you produce in your house. The correct term is spent fuel, which is can enrich, and reuse. you should ask how all the "waste" the radiology centres in Gha ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 9 years ago

    Why not solar energy?We have sunshine all year round!What brains do our people have?

  • liv 9 years ago

    Good Idea. Don't forget the engineers in South Africa are WHITE. Nuclear power is too complicated for the engineers in Ghana.

  • Kwesi Eshun 9 years ago

    We would have long advanced to nuclear energy by now if the nation wreckers' agenda was not to disrupt, destroy and resist anything, everything good for Ghana as championed by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana would have advan ...
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  • ROY 9 years ago

    Nkrumah initiated the nuclear energy project at Kwabenya in Accra in 1964. The project was abandoned after the deposition of Nkrumah in 1966 for no apparent reason.

    The nation wreckers and their foreign allies have apparen ...
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  • Economista 9 years ago

    WE DONT KNOW HOW TO KEEP OUR GUTTERS AND SURROUNDINGS CLEAN. WE HAVE NO DISCIPLINE AND WE WANT TO BUILD AND RUN A NUCLEAR PLANT. ARE WE CRAZY !!!

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    This doctor has been spending too much time in the library ot laboratory. He needs to get out to face realities in Ghana. Here is a country which cannot even have a grasp on its solid and liquid waste. How does he expect Ghan ...
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  • K.Osafo Kantanka 9 years ago

    Another dreamer again.This man is not that serious with his silly suggestion.At the moment we are not even capable of cleaning our streets with brooms and cleaning our gutters or drains with shovels.Please do yourself a big f ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    Masa, even free water from God to Akossombo we can not manage it; not alone Nuc. You are a dangerous Man

  • Tango & Cash 9 years ago

    We can't even maintain our dirt roads and keep simple gutters and drains clean and you are advocating nuclear What???
    Please don't be silly.

  • Antoa Nyamah 9 years ago

    Ghana is is far from managing Nuclear energy.Dr.R:B:M.Sogbadji spoke as if he is not a Dr.because he refused to tackle the disadvantages.How do we get fid of the waste products?
    Let us think of Solar energy production Dr.Sog ...
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  • Justman 9 years ago

    I AM SURE DR, SOGBADJIE PLANNED TO EXTINCT THE WHOLE COUNTRY INCLUDING OTHER WEST AFRICANS FROM THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.SIMPLE AND SAFEST OF ALL ENERGIES-HYDRO POWER IS EVEN A DISASTER HOW MUCH MORE NUCLEAR.

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    If we can't do it ourselves, what about sending the $3 million we just send to the Black Stars to the engineers at Siemens to come and build solar energy and wind energy for us.
    It looks like we care more about football than ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Where is our unemployed graduates when you need them? There are a whole slew of jobs for you - on the wind farms, converting wind turbines into electricity, or installing photovoltaic cells on rooftops of our schools, churche ...
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  • Jj rawlings 9 years ago

    King lomotey. ...u are the only one who is talking sense.... Its simple ...pay siemens or other expat companies to get the solar energy done......siemens is currently tapping solar energy from shara desert to europe.....
    Gha ...
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  • AWUDU 9 years ago

    A true and highly-qualified expert in stupidity! Ghana can't even handle regular waste in her cities!