Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned three new facilities at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) towards the advancement of science and technology.
These facilities are: Low-Enriched Uranium Core Research Reactor, the International Miniature Neutron Source Reactor Training Facility and the Laboratory Building for the Radiological and Medical Sciences Research Institute.
In an address, Dr. Bawumia reiterated government’s commitment to the promotion of Nuclear Science and Technology to well position Ghana to take advantage of its opportunities especially the generation of electricity from nuclear energy.
To this end, he hinted that government has released Three hundred million US dollars ($300m) for the siting of the Nuclear Power Plant.
He said Cabinet has also approved the setting up of an organisation to oversee the construction and operation of Ghana’s first Nuclear Power Plant, (NPP) and believe it will also help in the quest to achieve some of the sustainable development goals, specifically, Good Health and Well-being, as well as Quality Education, which will transform the world.
”We will continue to play our role as Government to support the nuclear power program.”
The Director General of Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Professor Benjamin Nyarko was grateful to government for it’s financial support to the three projects particularly the Nuclear program.
He however, appealed to government to make the Graduate School For Nuclear and Allied Sciences autonomous to enable function better and admit high number of graduates from the Free S.H.S.
