JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) - ROSATOM, Russia's state nuclear energy corporation, has launched its annual competition aimed at igniting interest in science and technology among African youths. Atoms Empowering Africa, as the competition is named, open to students and professionals aged between 18 and 35. The seventh annual online competition invites participants to create a short
Princy Mthombeni, nuclear activist, head and founder of the platform Africa4Nuclear told Sputnik about the advantages of development of nuclear power in Africa.
Africa Needs Nuclear Power to Propel Economic Development and Eliminate Poverty-Will Ghana Take the Lead?
Africa s only nuclear powerplant in Koeberg South Africa. (Courtesy cbn.co.za)
Ghana has correctly focused on obtaining energy from nuclear power to realize their ambition of becoming an industrialized economy. It is worth remembering that under President Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana had, I believe, the first test nuclear reactor on the continent. Seventeen African nations are in various stages of planning for nuclear energy stations in their countries. The energy-flux density of nuclear power is superior to all other forms of energy, plus it is not dependent on wind, water, or sunlight. I encourage all African nations to move rapidly to harness the power of the Sun on earth through nuclear energy. The most complete means for African nations to break free from the legacy of colonialism, is to design nuclear powered manufacturing-industrialized economies; ending poverty and hunger.