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Veep Dr. Bawumia commissions three new facilities at Atomic Energy

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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.

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