While the Biden administration appears eager to send billions of dollars to keep a foreign state fighting an armed conflict far away from US borders, it turns out that members of the United States’ own armed forces have to live in unsanitary conditions.
A team of inspectors from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has investigated 12 unspecified military installations in the United States and interviewed US military personnel about the conditions they have to live in.
In a 118-page report produced as a result of this inspection, the GAO investigators have concluded that the Pentagon failed to provide the oversight necessary to rectify the issues they’ve uncovered.
Specifically, some of the interviewed US military personnel complained about dirty water in their barracks that was potentially unsafe to drink; others mentioned broken heaters and air conditioning units, with the affected service members being forced to deal with such issues themselves by obtaining individual ACs or space heaters......more here
Ghana is interested in purchasing a floating nuclear power plant from Russia, Ghanaian Ambassador to Russian Koma Steem Jehu-Appiah told Sputnik.
"I know that our minister of energy was here last year and signed a corresponding agreement. I think this is innovative, and in a conversation with the minister of energy, he said that the country is interested.
So, Ghana could purchase such a nuclear power plant," the diplomat said when asked about the possibility of Ghana purchasing a floating nuclear power plant.
Russia and Ghana began cooperation in the field of nuclear energy after signing an intergovernmental agreement in 2015.
The agreement outlined plans for joint work in the areas of training specialists, building nuclear power plants and related infrastructure, and providing maintenance services. In October 2023, representatives of Rosatom met with the Ghanaian Ministry of Energy in Cape Town. At the meeting, Russia proposed using floating nuclear power plants to supply power to ...