Ghana goes nuclear: 2 Plants in six years

[How Sway?]

Ghana goes nuclear; 2 Plants in six years
After more than five decades of back and forth movements on the production of energy from nuclear sources, Ghana is now inching closer to establishing two of its first nuclear power plants to augment national power supply from hydro, thermal and solar sources.
The Ministry of Energy and the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), which are coordinating activities towards realising the vision, estimate that the first two plants could be operational in the next five to six years, with the capacity to produce some 2,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity.

Each nuclear power plant would cost between US$5 and US$6 billion to establish, Professor Benjamin J. B. Nyarko, the Director General (DG) of the GAEC, and Dr Robert Sogbadji, the Deputy Director in charge of Nuclear and Alternative Energy at the Ministry of Energy, told the Daily Graphic in separate interviews in Sochi in Russia yesterday.

Ghanaian delegation

Prof. Nyarko and Dr Sogbadji spoke to the Daily Graphic after the opening ceremony of this year’s ATOMEXPO International Forum in Sochi.

Started in 2008, the annual event is organised by the State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) of Russia and brings together global experts and business executives with interest in nuclear and renewal energy.

 

[Poitier]

Ghana really resurrecting itself from the grave after that IMF loan

 

[How Sway?]

Ghana really resurrecting itself from the grave after that IMF loan and John mahama

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[Neuromancer]

Nukes soon maybe?

 

[How Sway?]

Nukes soon maybe?

 

[Karb]

It's been a while since I visited the Root

Ghana is on the come up

 

[BigMan]

american led Regime change soon maybe?

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[newworldafro]

Radiate and mutate and increase cancer among your people brehs.

They have nowhere to store the waste.

Nigeria is trying to do similar shiit. It's not worth it. Increase your solar. If an accident happens with solar it won't make whole regions uninhabitable.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Radiate and mutate and increase cancer among your people brehs.

They have nowhere to store the waste.

Nigeria is trying to do similar shiit. It's not worth it. Increase your solar. If an accident happens with solar it won't make whole regions uninhabitable.

They have plenty of places to store the waste, what are you talking about.

Solar doesn't work when it's cloudy or dark out. It's a supplement at best.

This is a step in the right direction IMO, but where Ghana really needs to invest is in its grid. I'm almost certain that's where the problems are. Obviously not as clickbaity or sexy as generation, but ultimately you have to get the power to the customer.

 

[AB Ziggy]

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More like Jerry Rawlings actually. He championed himself selling out the country to IMF and World Bank.

 

[AB Ziggy]

Funny enough, Ghana used to be supplied by Ivory Coast and Nigeria when it comes to electricity power. Now the opposite is happening as of recent years under President Addo.


This is a good step to become a country of export rather than import.

 

[newworldafro]

They have plenty of places to store the waste, what are you talking about.

Solar doesn't work when it's cloudy or dark out. It's a supplement at best.

This is a step in the right direction IMO, but where Ghana really needs to invest is in its grid. I'm almost certain that's where the problems are. Obviously not as clickbaity or sexy as generation, but ultimately you have to get the power to the customer.

Where?

This is not like dealing with trash from a trashcan.

Apparently you have never heard of Hanford in Washington state.



Where?

You can't just bury nook waste anywhere. It has to be appropriate geology, soil, water table. The U.S. even as large as it is had to search the entire country to find the most appropriate site for all of our 100 nook reactors' waste. Again, we have top notvh scientists who determined the best site in the continental U.S. was Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Extremely controversial partially because Native Americans called it Indian burial ground, even though considered best site in the U.S. An $8 billion dollar project was revoked by Obama in 2009, Obama Cuts Funds To Nuclear Waste Repository, probably with some push from Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. So now we do don't even have a place to store nook power waste.

Now Ghana will be responsible for that shiit.

As far as solar power, Germany is in a cold temperate, overcast climate, yet they are moving away from nook, and towards solar/wind. 6% of Germany's power comes from solar.

Germany 82.8 million
Ghana 23.1 million

It's like jokers have never heard of Fukushima or Chernobyl. Whole regions filled. Y'all want to see a West African country radiated, because that was deemed the best way to boil water to move a turbine to produce electricity.



Ghana gets un believable amounts of sun.

Here's the thing if Africa was really about unifying economically, then start with energy integration. West African countries could build massive fields in the desert or Sahel, since it takes a lot of land.

The EU was started as a coal cooperative, repeat the same thing except for solar energy.



The U.S. is way more advanced technologically than Ghana, has more money available. and has is much larger space in terms of square mileage. It has billions of dollar's invested in every aspect of the nook industry, and we can't get a new nook waste disposal site approved. That means all the nook waste just collects and sits at 100 nook power plants, that have to be cooled 24/7 or SHTF.

 

[Kwabena]

Accident waiting to happen

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

African countries should pursue any and all energy production means!

 

[newworldafro]

African countries should pursue any and all energy production means!

I disagree.

The F(N)ukushima Thread .... and Related Nooklear Concerns

Let me put y'all brehs on to game. You won't find a bigger supporter of African development and progress on this board....HOWEVER.....instead of repeating the growing pains and continued dumb development methods pursued by Western counties, why not be smart and sustainable about it. Learn from the mistakes of others.

To make my point about nook waste disposal more clear, Europe is estimating $253 billion needed to store and secure It's nook waste...imagine what broke ass Europe could do with that money instead of babysitting nook waste? http://www.thecoli.com/posts/18647878/.

It is a Pandora' s Box of shiit dealing with this shiit, and you gone find Ghana and Nigeria spending money and resources trying to repeat these same bullshiit mitigation steps into an inevitable sink hole.

Lastly, if you want some high quality irony, Germany nd China want to pursue a massive solar field in...........
wait for it...........wait for it...................wait for it........
Chernobyl! .... That radioactively uninhabitable 1,000 square mile once agricultural productive part of the Ukraine. Because of the nook power plant failure that created this wasteland, it is now seen as a great place to put up solar panels http://www.thecoli.com/posts/22899083/

So if you see what I'm saying West Africa needs to link up, and pursue a massive solar agreement, instead of risking the land and people's health for this energy source. It's more trouble than the investment is worth. History can guide your decision making.