{"id":53852,"date":"2022-10-26T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53852"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:24:17","slug":"united-states-and-japan-announce-partnership-with-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53852","title":{"rendered":"United States and Japan Announce Partnership with Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>10\/26\/2022 04:57 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>At the International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Power Ministerial Conference in Washington, DC, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff, Ghana\u2019s Deputy Minister of Energy Hon. William Owuraku Aidoo, and Japan\u2019s State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ota Fusae today announced a strategic collaboration to support the deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) technology in Ghana, considering the current state of technology neutrality of Ghana\u2019s nuclear power program. The collaboration to support the deployment of SMRs in Ghana is subject to Ghana\u2019s nuclear regulation and U.S. export controls. \u00a0In line with IAEA Milestones Approach for building a nuclear power program, the three countries committed to upholding the highest standards of nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows the October 6-7 visit to Ghana of Deputy Secretary of Energy Turk and an interagency team, including the State Department, for consultations on enhancing cooperation on civil nuclear energy with the Government of Ghana and its agencies including Nuclear Power Ghana and the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission.\u00a0 The countries in the trilateral cooperation recognize that the final decision on which technology to deploy in Ghana rest with the Government of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Through these joint efforts, Ghana\u00a0has the opportunity not only to demonstrate leadership in advancing energy security and climate action globally, but also establish itself as a regional center of excellence in Africa for the deployment of innovative nuclear technologies.<\/p>\n<p>As an initial step, to support the deployment of SMRs and establish Ghana as a regional SMR hub, the Government of Japan is supporting an SMR feasibility study to be carried out by Japanese and U.S. industry \u2014 IHI Corp., JGC Corp., Regnum Technology Group, and NuScale Power \u2014 in collaboration\u00a0with Government of Ghana through its agencies \u2014 Nuclear Power Ghana, Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and the Nuclear Power Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission. \u00a0The study carries out a survey for the potential\u00a0deployment of a NuScale VOYGR<sup>TM<\/sup>\u00a0SMR nuclear power plant, including existing infrastructure assessments, as well as evaluate supply chain opportunities in the Ghanaian market.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is supporting a targeted Ghana SMR Workforce Development Initiative under the Foundational Infrastructure for the Responsible Use of SMR Technology capacity building program.\u00a0Through trilateral efforts on workforce and supply chain development, Ghana will be well positioned to provide SMR project support in Ghana as well as the broader African region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/26\/2022 04:57 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53853,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53852\/revisions\/53853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}