{"id":188934,"date":"2025-01-18T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-small-modular-reactor-unveiled-at-university-of-nuclear-and-allied-sciences\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:01:57","slug":"ghana-small-modular-reactor-unveiled-at-university-of-nuclear-and-allied-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-small-modular-reactor-unveiled-at-university-of-nuclear-and-allied-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Small Modular Reactor Unveiled At University of Nuclear and Allied Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A state-of-the art small modular reactor (SMR) has been launched at the University of Nuclear and Allied Sciences to boost Ghana&#8217;s energy production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">It is called the NuScale Energy Exploration (E2), the first of its kind in Africa, and aimed to serve as a training and research centre for nuclear scientists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">It was funded by the United States government under the Department of State&#8217;s Foundational Infrastructure for Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In addition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170342.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state-of-the art small modular reactor (SMR) has been launched at the University of Nuclear and Allied Sciences to boost Ghana&#8217;s energy production. It is called the NuScale Energy Exploration (E2), the first of its kind in Africa, and aimed to serve as a training and research centre for nuclear scientists. It was funded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,43364,4508,4509,28135,257,5141,49550,11587,10046,254,5148,16326],"class_list":["post-188934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allied","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-modular","tag-news","tag-nuclear","tag-reactor","tag-sciences","tag-small","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university","tag-unveiled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}