Ghana has expressed its willingness to follow the strict safety rules that accompany the use of nuclear energy.
Ghana ready to follow strict rules - Atomic Energy
It is hoped that nuclear energy will help bring the country out of the perennial power crisis known locally as dumsor.
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This comes as Ghana inches closer to adopting nuclear energy as part of efforts to increase power generation sources for industrial and domestic use.
The global body responsible for overseeing the safe use of nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has very strict guidelines for that countries looking to use nuclear materials should follow. This has made many countries especially in the developing world disinterested in adopting nuclear energy to augment power shortages.
However, according to the the Director General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Professor Benjamin Nyarko, Ghana is every ready to comply.
In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM that "Nuclear power plants have inbuilt safety systems already. After the Fukushima [nuclear accident in Japan] they studied it and put in different safety measures and it is always like that for all the accidents. We in Ghana have operated a research reactor for the past 22 years...
"In terms of safety and knowledge in nuclear field we have experience. There are international standards of operating it. We have what we call safety culture. So we have to inculcate it into the people."
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