Director for Nuclear Power Institute and Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has declared that, in building Nuclear Power Plant in Ghana, over 1000 people can be employed.
Mr. Debrah said this during a workshop that was organized for the media at the electro volta house conference hall in Accra. This engagement with the media under the theme, “Ghana Steps into Nuclear Future” was to educate the media on how they can assist Nuclear Power Ghana to achieve their aim of constructing a Nuclear Power Plant in Ghana.
He revealed that, “When it comes to nuclear power plant, we need about 1000 people to generate it. Just the nuclear power plant building or the reactor alone not talking about any other thing.”
According to him, Ghana has a lot of resources which when utilized well into finished goods can help them to achieve their aim of building a nuclear power plant in the country to develop.”
“We have iron ore but we rather mine the ore and then export without processing. When you mine an iron ore as at last month, the price for a kilogram of the ore is 0.1225 dollars. Processing ore into carbon steel per kilogram is 1.892 dollars. When you want to process it further into coal is 2.178 dollars owner kilogram. When you turn it into stainless steel is 4.048 dollars per kilogram.”
For him when nuclear power is established in the country, it must transform the country and must suppose to be a transmitter for every company in the country. Adding said, nuclear is a utility led with a vendor contract. Six countries have shown interest in giving technology to NPG since it is not just any power plant Nuclear power Ghana wants to build.
Mr. Debrah noted that: “Vendor is needed for this project. So far Ghana has approached six vendors for the last five months. Russia, China, India, South Korea, France, and we are yet to approach the next country. When it comes to reactors which are about 300megawatt and 700 megawatts is called a large power plant whilst the small molar power plant are between 60-300 megawatts. USA, China, Argentina, Russia, South Korea are some of the countries that have the technology.”
According to the director, NPG do not want to look at any power but a nuclear power plant that can make a positive economic impact on the society and the country at large. In building a big nuclear power plant it takes about six years which do not come out to be easy.
Again, the nuclear power plant project will bring a positive economic impact, industrialisation impact and some financial backings, technology transfer, risk mitigation, and bring quality and none power applications that look at license operators, mechanical systems, instrumentation control maintenance as well as mechanical engineers due to its high capital cost venture and also have impact on the local expertees.
The Director revealed that nuclear can obtain hydrogen as a waste product. Hydrogen can be used as a means for some of the cars that are used by individuals. Cars that use petrol can be converted into hydrogen cars because of their strength.
Mr. Debrah comparing the country to South Korea in terms of development said,
“The GDP of South Korea per capita is 31,000 dollars. As at 1958, South Kirea GDP per capita was 82 dollars whilst Ghana’s GDP per capita was above 100 dollars. In 1964, they indentified their site for a nuclear power plant and in 1965 they mounted their first meteo power at a prepared site. In 2008, 20 nuclear power were in operation in South Korea. South Korea is one of the countries that took the technology to improve their society. They produce almost all the reactor vessels in the world but we started with them”.
He urged everybody in the energy sector to help in this project NPG wants to fulfill to bring development in the country as well as generating work for the country.
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