Ghana is interested in Russian cooperation in developing nuclear power in Ghana, including a Russian floating nuclear power plant. Emmanuel Bedzrah, chair of Ghana’s parliamentary Energy Committee and is leading a delegation now in Moscow, told Sputnik the goal is to explore nuclear options to meet Africa’s growing energy needs.
“That’s why we’re here,” he told Sputnik on May 22.
While Russia is already operating the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant in the Arctic town of Pevek that produces 70 MW of electricity, it is now building a new and more powerful plants. These new floating NPPs will deploy two of the new RITM-200 reactors which produce 55 MW electricity and currently power Russia’s new class of nuclear icebreakers. A land-based RITM-200 reactor is already under construction in a Russian Arctic community. Russia is already constructing two floating NPPs that will have 2 PITM 200s for a total of 110 MW.
Bedzrah’s delegation held meetings with their Russian counterparts at the Russian State Duma on May 21, where they discussed the prospects for Russian-Ghana cooperation on developing nuclear energy in Ghana, as well as the creation of a scientific nuclear technologies center, and the development of hydrocarbon and mineral resources in the country.
The Chairman of the Committee on Energy Nikolay Shulginov, who headed the Russian side expressed hope that the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministries of Energy of Russia and Ghana, which was prepared several years ago, will be signed soon. The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade Gennady Sklyar noted that Russia could offer high-power energy reactors and low-power floating nuclear power plants.
