Mr William Owuraku Aidoo, the Deputy Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has said Ghana has the required technology to embark upon the establishment of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to generate electricity.
He said the country's vision for the peaceful application of nuclear technology in various fields including power generation, dated back to the 1963 when the reactor project was launched by Ghana's first President Osagyfo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Unfortunately, the project was abandoned in 1966 and until a series of power crisis and high cost of electricity tariffs rekindled the discussion, saying nuclear plant was best suited to be operated as a base load generation for the country, he said.
