GHANA TO SELECT NUCLEAR SITE IN 2022
Ghana is tired of running short on generation, and is advancing from its existing nuclear research reactor program to a full commercial nuclear energy program.
Ghana can be the Sweden of Africa, blending existing hydro with new nuclear.
Ghana is tired of running short on generation, and is advancing from its existing nuclear research reactor program to a full commercial nuclear energy program.
Ghana can be the Sweden of Africa, blending existing hydro with new nuclear.
https://twitter.com/StandUp4Nuclear/status/1494478275350990849
I visited Ghana's research reactor in October of last year.
It was cool but the real highlight of my trip was a conversation with Dr. Stephen Yamoah, director of Nuclear Power Ghana, who is quoted in the GhanaWeb article.
He had a clear vision and a plan. His team is executing.
It was cool but the real highlight of my trip was a conversation with Dr. Stephen Yamoah, director of Nuclear Power Ghana, who is quoted in the GhanaWeb article.
He had a clear vision and a plan. His team is executing.
Intriguingly, the Ghanaian nuclear program has attracted a proposal from SNC-Lavalin to build CANDUs, which if built would be the first CANDU exports since Qinshan in China twenty years ago.
It's surprised observers in Canada who thought the CANDU new build era was over.
It's surprised observers in Canada who thought the CANDU new build era was over.
Part of what's so exciting to me about Ghana's progress is the message it sends to neighbors like Nigeria, with 200m people, and like Ghana, extremely low land and sea wind speeds, and middling solar potential.
Get going or get left behind: West Africa's future is in nuclear.
Get going or get left behind: West Africa's future is in nuclear.
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