Really? With respect, let the good professor answer a simple question: what is a nation with abundant potential tidal power, doing about that safe and reliable renewable source of power? Ditto large-scale wind power generation - also safe and renewable? Why are we not doing anything positive about exploiting that gift of nature, which renewable power represents?
Sadly, we are people who are world-famous for not maintaining our infrastructure, buildings and structures in the built-up public space. So what are we doing dreaming about something as dangerous and complicated as the business of storing and securing nuclear waste - something that will remain radioactive, and hence very dangerous, for thousands of years?
The question which discerning Ghanaians ought to ask the good professor and those who think like him, is: have we mastered the relatively simple science of safely disposing of household and industrial waste, yet?
If not, what right do we have to condemn future generations of our people to living with the ever-present danger of an accident at a Ghanaian nuclear waste storage facility (during an earthquake, for example)?
Any primary schoolchild living in any of Ghana's coastal communities will tell the professor that in their view, Ghana has enough potential in tidal power, to provide it with safe and renewable power, till the very end of time.
Since we have close relations with the UK, why does he not talk to the Chief Minister of the Scottish Parliament - so that our scientific community can cooperate with their research scientific community involved in tidal power generation work?
Some of us feel so strongly about preventing this lunacy - and feel that we must never risk the consequences of an accident at a nuclear waste storage site in our country, ever.
Taflaste, indeed, so strongly do we feel about preventing the potential risk it poses to future generations of our people, that some of us are even prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice: and risk our lives to overthrow any regime that undertakes the lunacy of building a nuclear power plant in a nation that can't even deal with the relatively simple task of household/industrial waste disposal, efficiently and safely, let alone the risky business of storing and securing nuclear waste that is super-dangerous and will remain so for thousands of years. Massa, never! Period.
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: easem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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