Nuclear energy for Ghana

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True Ghanaian 12 years ago

A BIG NO thanks to nuclear energy. Don't even think about that. Do you know what is happening in Japan. There are many other ways of providing energy BUT NOT nuclear..

A BIG NO thanks to nuclear energy. Don't even think about that. Do you know what is happening in Japan. There are many other ways of providing energy BUT NOT nuclear..
Tokyo !! 12 years ago

You can even fill ur pot holes talk of manning nuclear plants. ..

You can even fill ur pot holes talk of manning nuclear plants. ..
Iddisah-- Lekpe 12 years ago

No No No to nuclear Power.

No No No to nuclear Power.
MUGU YARO 12 years ago

Tommy:

We prefer charcoal burning and kerosine in our lamps to nuclear energy. Even if a country like Japan is having nightmares from a single nuclear accident, I can't imagine what will happen in Ghana with such an accid ...
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Tommy:

We prefer charcoal burning and kerosine in our lamps to nuclear energy. Even if a country like Japan is having nightmares from a single nuclear accident, I can't imagine what will happen in Ghana with such an accident. I rather have Ghana grow more trees to burn for energy than have a single nuclear plant. Moreover, we can build more dams on Pra, Tano, Offin, etc. Please, nobody must ever think of a potential national suicide in the form of a nuclear plant in Ghana.
MUGU STUPID FOOL 12 years ago

Yes you are a 100% right we do not need this power for any thing now. My question is why do publishers, keep revisiting this topic all the time. I guess most of this publishers are sick. Why should I not say this? Yes i have ...
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Yes you are a 100% right we do not need this power for any thing now. My question is why do publishers, keep revisiting this topic all the time. I guess most of this publishers are sick. Why should I not say this? Yes i have to, for they think they have the means to make things add up where they can not. Look what state of mind would you put some one who thinks by adding the same numbers could get a diffrent result? (Madness) for 1+1 would always be 2. Nothing could chanage this result until Thy Kingdom come.
So MUGU YARO go to hell with this tropic for Now.
Nana B 12 years ago

The question is do we have power generation issue or transmission issue. These are two different issue. If we have a transmission problem then adding another power generating capability does not solve the problem. We need to ...
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The question is do we have power generation issue or transmission issue. These are two different issue. If we have a transmission problem then adding another power generating capability does not solve the problem. We need to understand the real root cuase of the power issue.
OPOKU 12 years ago

Excuse me sir, you are not Martin Luthur King. Your ideas are foolish. Ghana is not yet to a position of using Nuclear energy yet. Ther are so many obstacles related to it when it comes to Ghan. So, please never take opportun ...
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Excuse me sir, you are not Martin Luthur King. Your ideas are foolish. Ghana is not yet to a position of using Nuclear energy yet. Ther are so many obstacles related to it when it comes to Ghan. So, please never take opportunity just simple because you can speak, you will be right to say anything. Your ideas are rogue. We lack so many thing on that issues. We need patriotic people to take care of that nuclare energy issues. We need the right technicians to handle it. We need well qualified people to handle it. You know what, Ghana lack all this people. At the moment we are empty minded huma beings.
james naru 12 years ago

Robert Woode, advises that Ghana must exhaust the potentials of all the energy sources before considering atomic energy usage.

Robert Woode, advises that Ghana must exhaust the potentials of all the energy sources before considering atomic energy usage.
TOTEN 12 years ago

Ghana cannot even manage domestic waste and u ar busy talking about nuclear. Do u know what nuclear waste can do?

Ghana cannot even manage domestic waste and u ar busy talking about nuclear. Do u know what nuclear waste can do?
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

Ghana does not need nuclear energy.

A nation that cannot manage trash cannot manage nuclear energy and therefore does not need it.

A country which remains an agrarian primary economy with near zero REAL industrial capac ...
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Ghana does not need nuclear energy.

A nation that cannot manage trash cannot manage nuclear energy and therefore does not need it.

A country which remains an agrarian primary economy with near zero REAL industrial capacity does not need nuclear energy.

Our electric consumption is primarily for domestic utility and we haven't even been ably to fully harness the full capacity of the existing energy sources for that basic consumption of electricity.

Aponkye needs no cake.

I rest my case.

Kkofi Dadie 12 years ago

That would be worse than giving a child fire to play with. One cannot entrust such dangerous things in the hands of indisciplined and mediocre people like Ghanaians who cannot even manage kitchen waste. Seems your intention t ...
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That would be worse than giving a child fire to play with. One cannot entrust such dangerous things in the hands of indisciplined and mediocre people like Ghanaians who cannot even manage kitchen waste. Seems your intention to wipe out life in the whole of west Africa. Where will the nuclear waste go? Are Ghanaians disciplined enough to adhere to the stringent security requisite for a nucclear facility? Idonot think so.
NOSTALGIA HUH!!!! 12 years ago

You are a big fool, a very stupid and ignorant bushman. Just shut up if you have nothing to offer intellectually. Do you know what you are talking about? You monkey!

You are a big fool, a very stupid and ignorant bushman. Just shut up if you have nothing to offer intellectually. Do you know what you are talking about? You monkey!
kessyjay 12 years ago

I need not read all your text to answer. Very comment below is right. Ghana does not have the skill set to manager nuclear systems.

I need not read all your text to answer. Very comment below is right. Ghana does not have the skill set to manager nuclear systems.
Adama d'Gharty, 12 years ago

Clearly this writer must be demented in his dreaming for a cure for Ghana's energy woes. Nuclear energy should never be considered as remedy for the ills of Ghana's energy power consumption. As a people we are always looking ...
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Clearly this writer must be demented in his dreaming for a cure for Ghana's energy woes. Nuclear energy should never be considered as remedy for the ills of Ghana's energy power consumption. As a people we are always looking for easy way out, in the case of our present energy crisis we fail to understand that most of our Ghanaian technicians and engineers are maintenance-shy, leading to countless major breakdowns in the Akosombo dam and its power production. Can anyone then imagine Ghana going Nuclear! - who is going to run and keep the complex safe in a country totally devoid of simple maintenance culture? In case we have forgotten about recent history of nuclear incidences in Japan and elsewhere in the world, looking after a nuclear power station is not in the same mode as maintaining a hydro-electric power station, and even that we fail to do well in Ghana.
Alhaji Pope 12 years ago

Quoting from your article on the last paragraph, you wrote. Many people are ill informrd and have negative perception about neucular power energy.
Just because of only two factors, namely hirosimah and Nagasaki.unquote, th ...
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Quoting from your article on the last paragraph, you wrote. Many people are ill informrd and have negative perception about neucular power energy.
Just because of only two factors, namely hirosimah and Nagasaki.unquote, this shows how myopic you are on the subject. You did not even mention chernobyl nor Fugushima. For your information. Germans have well known engineers in the world, but they are in the proces of shuting down all the atom re-actors in the country.
Gh 12 years ago

Some of you are idiots. So you''d rather have frequent power outages than to have reliable energy? I don't care whatever has to be done to ensure we have 101% reliable energy should be done! YES to nuclear power!!!

Some of you are idiots. So you''d rather have frequent power outages than to have reliable energy? I don't care whatever has to be done to ensure we have 101% reliable energy should be done! YES to nuclear power!!!
Kwame vs. Kofi 12 years ago

Ghana does not have a good geputation when it comes to waste - management. What will happen if such an nuclear-reactor is connected to the national electricity grid and produces nuclear waste for very sensitiv disposal? Will ...
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Ghana does not have a good geputation when it comes to waste - management. What will happen if such an nuclear-reactor is connected to the national electricity grid and produces nuclear waste for very sensitiv disposal? Will Ghana be capable to handle this dangerous problem? Where is the used cooling water go to? Into the sea? Into weija-lake? I which I could find out how many "unwanted events" happened in connection with the Ghanaian "Test reactor" of the University of Ghana, which is used for medical experiments at Korle Bu!?
I think Ghana should use it`s own oil and buils a suitable refinery for it and produce electricity the "..old school style"!
Ofori Quaah 12 years ago

The one crucial factor that "the Let's go Nuclear" Lobby in Ghana is either not aware of or simply glossing over in their zeal to foist this unnecessary burden on the people of Ghana is the seismotectonic history of Ghana. Th ...
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The one crucial factor that "the Let's go Nuclear" Lobby in Ghana is either not aware of or simply glossing over in their zeal to foist this unnecessary burden on the people of Ghana is the seismotectonic history of Ghana. The landmass of Ghana has been affected by several major earthquakes over the past five hunderd years.

It is one phenonenon that we know very little about and do not bother about, hoping it will go away, but it won't!

Southern Ghana, and particularly the coastal regions of Ghana are strewn with numerous faults, each of which is capable of triggering an eathquake, as the Kobe Earthquake of 1995 showed.

Earthquakes and nuclear reactors are not good bedfelllows, as Fukushima and other places have amply demmonstrated. The cost of making a Ghanaian nuclear ractor safe will be horrendous.

There are cheaper, safer annd more manageable options. If we have not learnt to dipose of domestic waste, if we have not learnt to fill potholes properly, if we have to depend on others' hand-outs to maintain our National Parliament, if we have not learnt to keep a gas power station running, if......, we have no business thinking of buliding nuclear power stations!
Ofori Quaah 12 years ago

Correction, "The one crucial factor that "the Let's go Nuclear" Lobby in Ghana is either not aware of or simply glossing over in their zeal to foist this unnecessary burden on the people of Ghana is the seismotectonic history ...
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Correction, "The one crucial factor that "the Let's go Nuclear" Lobby in Ghana is either not aware of or simply glossing over in their zeal to foist this unnecessary burden on the people of Ghana is the seismotectonic history of Ghana. The landmass of Ghana has been affected by several major earthquakes over the past five hundred years.

It is one phenomenon that we know very little about and do not bother about, hoping it will go away, but it won't!

Southern Ghana, and particularly the coastal regions of Ghana are strewn with numerous faults, each of which is capable of triggering an earthquake, as the Kobe Earthquake of 1995 showed.

Earthquakes and nuclear reactors are not good bed-fellows, as Fukushima and other places have amply demonstrated. The cost of making a Ghanaian nuclear reactor safe will be horrendous.

There are cheaper, safer and more manageable options. If we have not learnt to dispose of domestic waste, if we have not learnt to fill potholes properly, if we have to depend on others' hand-outs to maintain our National Parliament, if we have not learnt to keep a gas power station running, if......, we have no business thinking of building nuclear power stations!"

Sorry about the typos!!!
Joy 12 years ago

Ofori you are right on; this Nuclear Power as source of energy for our nation - to me - is nonsense!!
Let us put our act together on more pressing issues with our utilities and infrastructure before dabbling into self destru ...
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Ofori you are right on; this Nuclear Power as source of energy for our nation - to me - is nonsense!!
Let us put our act together on more pressing issues with our utilities and infrastructure before dabbling into self destruction.

KAKABO 12 years ago

I laughed my lungs out when I read this article calling for Ghana to go into nuclear energy. I am wondering if the writer leaves in Ghana and if not when was his last visit to Ghana. I am also wondering if he is aware of our ...
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I laughed my lungs out when I read this article calling for Ghana to go into nuclear energy. I am wondering if the writer leaves in Ghana and if not when was his last visit to Ghana. I am also wondering if he is aware of our current national psyche, mentality, predisposition and attitude to safety at all. Mr writer, go to the Korle Gorno and see how we manage simple human waste.I need not remind you that human waste which could be processed to support agriculture in the form of manure is still beyond our capabilities as a nation to manage. If we cannot manage ordinary human waste and could allow it to pollute the entire environment , how on earth do you think we can deal with nuclear waste. If the writer is an expert in nuclear power and hence wants Ghana to go nuclear so he can get a job, then I am afraid he should have a rethink about his proposal. We live in a country where we have running rivers all year long. Let us look at hydro and solar rather than nuclear because I can assure you if we put one nuclear plant in Ghana , the whole nation would perish within the first 10 years of that plant's existence.
KK 12 years ago

If the very little, friendly Gods gift, Akosombo we can not manage, what about a nuclear plant?
Reading a nuclear book does not make one a nuclear engineer.

If the very little, friendly Gods gift, Akosombo we can not manage, what about a nuclear plant?
Reading a nuclear book does not make one a nuclear engineer.
AYI 12 years ago

PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.

GHANA ...
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PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.

GHANA DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, GHANA MUST REPENT QUICKLY AND EMBRACE DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS VISIONS ABOUT GHANA / AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, TO HELP GHANA AND AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/MOVE TO THE TOP.

AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MUST QUICKLY EMBRACE HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WITHOUT DELAY TO HELP AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/ MOVE TO THE TOP. IT IS TOO FRAGILE/DANGEROUS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO WASTE TIME IN EMBRACING HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. EVERY AFRICAN/STUDENT/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FROM THE LOWEST GRADE/KINGDERGARDEN TO THE MOST HIGHEST EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY/PAU AND EVERY PROFESSOR MUST/COMPULSORY STUDY HON MARCUS GARVEY’S, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH’S, MALCOM X’S TEACHINGS/IDEAS/VISIONS ABOUT AFRICA . GOD BLESSES AFRICA AMEN.
JH New York 12 years ago

Some of the highly educated are those killing us in Ghana,bco's we give them the positions based on their academic qualifications but mess up or sells the hen that lays the golden egg.Another example is the reckless implement ...
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Some of the highly educated are those killing us in Ghana,bco's we give them the positions based on their academic qualifications but mess up or sells the hen that lays the golden egg.Another example is the reckless implementation of Single Spine Salary without weighing the Consequences.
This write up is nice on paper but have you weighed the Consequences in Case of a disaster as against the benefits.
We know some of the benefits like electricity,pharmaceutcals etc but do Ghana
have the 5 patrotic Citizenry in Japan whom
JH New York 12 years ago

do we have the 5 patrotic Citizens like the Japanese experience ?.Again in a Country where police exhibit under lock & keys could mysteriously turn into Cautic Soda don't you think toxic waste could easily fall into wrong han ...
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do we have the 5 patrotic Citizens like the Japanese experience ?.Again in a Country where police exhibit under lock & keys could mysteriously turn into Cautic Soda don't you think toxic waste could easily fall into wrong hands. We cannot manage mosquitoes,water,filth etc do we have the money to build ,maintain and protect it.The last but not the least,in a Country where industrial strike is rampant todangerous to consider it now.
ACID 12 years ago

SOLAR ENERGY THE BEST WAY OUT.

SOLAR ENERGY THE BEST WAY OUT.
FM 12 years ago

I agree with you.

Nuclear is costly and in most parts of Western Europe these plants are only going with huge state subsidies through guaranteed minimum pricing schemes underwritten by the state. I will not bother about t ...
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I agree with you.

Nuclear is costly and in most parts of Western Europe these plants are only going with huge state subsidies through guaranteed minimum pricing schemes underwritten by the state. I will not bother about the cost of the waste, as we do not even plan ahead for such an issue which is the main problem ahead for nuclear. The cost managing the waste alone should deter any serious policy analyst with Ghana's financial situation to look at other sources of power if logic forms part of our thinking in development planning .
Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten 12 years ago

No no no no. Not at all, because we are too corrupt and careless. We shall all die of nuclear accidents and radioactivity.

No no no no. Not at all, because we are too corrupt and careless. We shall all die of nuclear accidents and radioactivity.

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