Nuclear energy in Ghana

There are currently no nuclear power plants in Ghana, although there are several nuclear research reactors in Ghana and plans to build to a power plant.^[1]

The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission has been investigating the use of nuclear power and is a member of the International Nuclear Library Network.^[2][1] The commission is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency to implement nuclear power in Ghana as part of a wider project, Sustainable Energy Development for Sub-Saharan Africa.^[3] Ghana also has a National Nuclear Research Institute which trains undergraduate and postgraduate students in the techniques of nuclear science application in such areas as agriculture, medicine, and research.^[4] Both of these organizations focus more on research and the two research reactors located in Ghana than nuclear power, as the country has no nuclear power plants.

The government of Ghana plans to commission the building of a nuclear power plant by 2018.^[1] President John Agyekum Kufuor supported the future building of nuclear power plants, seeing it as part of a solution to the country's energy problems. He initiated a Nuclear Power Committee to study the issue.^[1] In 2011, the director of the National Nuclear Research Institute, Benjamin Nyarko, also said he believed nuclear power could prevent future energy crises.^[5]

See Also

• Ghana Nuclear Society

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Ghana Goes Nuclear 2018". Daily Guide. Modern Ghana (General News). 8 January 2008. http://www.modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?menu_id=1&id=VFZSVmVVNXFZek09. Retrieved 12 March 2011. 
2. ^ "Participating libraries". International Atomic Energy Agency. http://inln.iaea.org/libraries.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
3. ^ Joe Okyere; Salome Donkor (1 November 2002). "Ghana to adopt nuclear power?". Graphic. Modern Ghana. http://www.modernghana.com/news/27450/1/ghana-to-adopt-nuclear-power.html. 
4. ^ Clark, Nancy L. "Electrical Power". A Country Study: Ghana (La Verle Berry, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (November 1994). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.[1]
5. ^ "Ghana turns to nuclear power for energy security". United Nations. http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/detail/113747.html. Retrieved 13 March 2011.