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4 June 2008 - The Ghanaian cabinet has agreed that Ghana should have nuclear energy power plant by 2018 to produce 400 MW of electricity to augment production from hydro and thermal sources, announced Minister of Communications, Benjamin Aggrey-Ntim.
Ghana News Agency Monday quoted Aggrey-Ntim as saying that Ghana had been self-sufficient till the recent past when it started having problems and that had called for the search for an alternative source of power production.
Aggrey-Ntim charged nuclear scientists to collaborate with the government to make the project a success. He said: "You must be serious because what you've learnt in the past would be put to test and we appeal to you all to make the project to come to fruition."
The minister said fear, which was the result of ignorance, was the main reason for the delay in implementing nuclear power plant on the continent and urged the participants to engage in discussions as to how to manage and provide security for the new plant that would come to Africa.
"This is the time for nuclear scientists to expose such things to allay peoples' fear about nuclear power and its significance to the continent," he said.
He therefore charged them to research into the comparative analysis between hydropower and nuclear power studies and the different skills needed to actually run a nuclear power plant.
They were also asked to find out radiation levels emitted around nuclear power stations and to make networking arrangements with other developed countries on the topic.
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