Ghana's Nuclear Future: Opportunity, risk and the preparation we cannot ignore

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• Nsia 4 days ago

  We have over 15 hours a day of sunshine and are not taking advantage of it. We have destroyed all our rivers and we are talking about nuclear.
  Common sense approach, every district in Ghana must found a brown field or disus ...
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  We have over 15 hours a day of sunshine and are not taking advantage of it. We have destroyed all our rivers and we are talking about nuclear.
  Common sense approach, every district in Ghana must found a brown field or disused ten to twenty acres of land which can be used to build a mini solar farms capable of producing up to 2 megawatts of power fed into the national grid.
  Sec Schools and Training collges built during the Nkrumah era have the same plan. Solar panels must be fitted unto most dormitories. All new hospitals being built must have solar panels fitted .
  There are so many practical ways in which we can harness solar to solve rural electrifcation. Yet, our politicians do not think outside the box. Nuclear has a lot of demerits too ,and with our corrupt politicians , we cannot have nuclear waste at our doorstep when we cannot even tackle those who are hellbent on destroying our river bodies. Thanks for your lucid and insightful article!

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• Kwame 5 hours ago

  If we are to think of nuclear energy and its hazards, then I will beg to say that even living in a straw tent has its dangers. You may set it alight if you put fire into it.
  Thus as we human beings don't put fire into our s ...
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  If we are to think of nuclear energy and its hazards, then I will beg to say that even living in a straw tent has its dangers. You may set it alight if you put fire into it.
  Thus as we human beings don't put fire into our straw hut, so we must remember to observe all the safety rules and regulation concerned with the use of nuclear fire.
  Nuclear energy is cheaper in the long run because it's the cost of its construction the housing for the reactor that is high.
  Unlike solar energy, nuclear energy does not suffer from low sunshine, rain, wind and dust, which is the case with solar panels, their convertors and distribution systems.
  Nuclear energy is produced by nuclear fusion that generates a lot of heat, a rod is inserted into the fusion material, which is protected from emitting radiation to conterminate or radiate anything near or far.
  The rod is inserted into water that serves as a cooling system, but at the same time it generates a lot of heat to turn on the rotor, just like any steam engine.
  As the rotor turns in the stator, it produces magnetic fluxes that cuts across the windings in the stator and electricity is produced.
  The amount of electricity produced depends on the rods that are to be cooled to produce steam, the size of the rotor and the stator.
  I am of the view that a nuclear reactor will not be placed in a water-locked zone, where flood water passes through and is well roofed to prevent water from sipping into the reactor.
  The fact it that countries that use nuclear energy are those in the temperate zones, monsoons and earthquake zones, in the case of Japan and Iran.
  There is a lot of cold in Siberia but we have not heard of the housing of a nuclear power station there cracking and emitting radiation. There are not cases of monsoon raid flooding nuclear reactors in China, India, Pakistan and other nations in the Monsoons that use nuclear energy, not to forget Malaysia.
  Where we are safe is that modern nuclear reactors are build with safety to shutdown in the case of earthquake in Fukushima and mishandling of the system as the was in Chernobil.

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