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Nuclear energy gets legal backing

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  • MENSA 8 years ago

    GHANA DONT NEED TO FOLLOW THE IRAN AYATOOLAS AND PLAY WITH FIRE SUCH AS NUCLEAR ENERGY THAT WE DONT KNOW HOW TO CONTROL AND OR MANAGE

  • Holy Judge 8 years ago

    It is interesting to note that a country so developed like Germany has set 2022 as the deadline to close down all its Atomic power plants and we, Ghana, a third world country wants to start building the same.

    Well, maybe w ...
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  • des 8 years ago

    God have mercy on our leaders! they are a disgrace to Ghana

  • PB 8 years ago

    But this picture is of a coal power station!!??

  • Teacher under Tree 8 years ago

    PB: You are right. It is a coal-fired power station! I worked there briefly in the 80's.
    Do you think the politicians know the difference?

  • Fred 8 years ago

    Really? Somebody must be dreaming irrational dreams.
    Nuclear power is horrendously expensive - just go to Europe or US and look at how much it costs to build a nuclear generating plant.
    Secondly - Ghana cannot even manage a ...
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  • EBO 8 years ago

    seek US TO HELP WITH THIS TECH.THEY HAVE,ONE LADY WAS ON CNN EXPLINING HOW TO HANDLE THE WASTE TO A BOX SIZE,WE CAN IT WITH THE LATEST TECH FROM USA

  • MD 8 years ago

    There are risk in every aspect of life. White people and the Asia people are moving forward because they are not afraid to take risk. The black man will complain of everything and will continue to remain where they are till t ...
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  • king 8 years ago

    MD. You are very ignorant and do not understand current trends in energy generation. Whilst everyone is looking at generating clean energy you are talking about black man always complaining. If what happened in Japan happene ...
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  • RT 8 years ago

    We may not be able to depend fully on natural factors. Hydro power may be stymied due to lack of rain. Lack of sunshine may undermine solar. So let's be careful not to put our eggs in one basket. There is risk in everything. ...
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  • Fred 8 years ago

    Well said king.

  • okofo 8 years ago

    You've surely have HEARD about NUCLEAR energy but CERTAINLY have NO clue what it is: Ghana does NOT come close to being able to deal with ANY nuclear glitch and its ramifications. Chernobyl 1986 and Fukushima 2011 nuclear dis ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 8 years ago

    When you are dying unless you have a risky operation, you dont really have a choice. You can choose to sit on the fence of "safety" and die in a few days or you accept the risks and undergo the operation to save your life. Al ...
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  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 8 years ago

    ANY GHANAIAN THAT OPPOSES NUCLEAR ENERGY IS AN ENEMY OF GHANA.

    RAIN PATTERNS HAVE CHANGED DRASTICALLY , BRING ON THE RUSSIAN TO COMPLETE WHAT THEY STARTED

  • okofo 8 years ago

    Nuclear energy is no sheabutter trust me. What Ghana has been able to manage to make you think we can handle NUCLEAR power?

  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 8 years ago

    WE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE & COMPETENT , MOST OF NASA SCIENTIST WERE GHANAIANS FROM THE DAWENYA NUCLEAR FACILITY . WHAT IS THE SOLUTION FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY IN ENERGY SINCE UNSTABLE H2O LEVELS IN AKOSOMBO ?

  • Before & After 8 years ago

    I am not aware of any Dawenya nuclear facility.
    If you are referring to Kwabenya, then you are giving false information. Name those NASA scientist(s) from that facility. Don't be deceived by so-called scientists who don't do ...
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  • Funny people 8 years ago

    You guys in charge of our country these days think you are so smart but infact you lots are very very dump,hahaha the reason is you lot think like children wishing for big toys
    Very very funny.

  • Bazely al haaq 8 years ago

    For how long are we going to continue dough ting about this issue nuclear energy is the solution now your looking for investors to come and create job for your youth without energy how can it b possible we need to think am ...
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  • Bazely al haaq 8 years ago

    Ghana educational system doesn't help students to think we need to introduce philosophy and logic in our educational system so that we can think well we only think about our pocket is time for us to think about the future ...
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  • Seriousman 8 years ago

    Please let this be know to the IAEA that Ghana is not a country that is to be trusted with nuclear energy. The IAEA should know that, Ghana as a state now cannot handle even patroleum products how more can it handle radioacti ...
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  • Before & After 8 years ago

    The IAEA is there for their own salaries. If they don't make themselves useful, the puppeteers will kick them out. That organization is there to promote the hidden agenda of their masters; that is to push all garbage to Afric ...
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  • AMALIYA 8 years ago

    The government must be dreaming. This Ghana government should ONLY go for nuclear power generation, when we have learned how to be extremely safety cautious and do away with the culture of poor maintenance and neglect.

  • daladam 8 years ago

    IN A TIME THAT JAPAN AND THE WESTERN WORLD ARE GETTING RID OF NUCLEAR POWER, GHANA WANTS THIS POWER? FOR WHAT? HA WHO STUPID IDEA IS THAT?DO WE NEED TO COPY THE IRAN AYATTOLAS?

  • asante 8 years ago

    Folks be careful with this nuclear thing,this is not petrol.The hardest part of it all is how to maintain the reactors.if care is not taken or if the reactors are not handle properly there could be a disaster for the whole co ...
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  • asante 8 years ago

    You try to get us all killed? damm! What a fuck do you know about this technology? Did you even inform the general masses before going nuclear ?this is why I hate you stupid parliamentarians! !!!!! We have a country with na ...
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  • Paa Joe 8 years ago

    DO GHANA PARLIAMENTARIANS KNOW THE IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANTS.

    ARE THEY NOT AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT.

    WE ARE STILL NOT IN COMMAND OF HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION ABD FOR THEMN TO TALK O ...
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  • Now Now 8 years ago

    We bet the scientists to generate the nuclear energy now. This report doesn't give any time table.

  • Comment 250 8 years ago

    Why not a law against corruption? Have we dealt with ordinary waste? How much more nuclear waste? Now I know parliamentarians are jokers. Keep dreaming and dreaming. Not serious.

  • Guest 8 years ago

    Just go to ENENEWS dot com and read the headlines to learn what happens when nuclear energy goes WRONG.