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More Australians want nuclear power than oppose it.
Australia is said to have the most reserves of uranium in the world. Nuclear technology is better understood, and is cleaner and much safer than the days of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. The newer “Pebbles” reactors shut themselves down if any safety parameters are exceeded. They put out more power and less radiation any any previous configuration and do not need to be cooled by water.
Wikipedia has a good discussion of Pebbles reactors.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 15 at 12:42 PM • permalinkSupport for nuclear power divides between the sexes with 59 per cent of men in favour but only 35 per cent of women.
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nukularnuclear power! patriarchally oppress those womyn!(lousy tree hugging earth mother granolettes?)
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2006 01 15 at 12:53 PM • permalinkAustralia is said to have the most reserves of uranium in the world.
just realised… coincidentally I was reading the following document i had open in another tab (i have a boring/no life, yes):
http://www.ga.gov.au/pdf/RR0112.pdf
on page 11 internally (page 16 in-band) you can see that vast quantities of uranium are indeed located in australia.
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2006 01 15 at 01:01 PM • permalinkDon’t those foolish women realize that if the oppressive patriarchal preverts glow in the dark, they’ll be easier to see?[
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 01:46 PM • permalinkSo, apparently, do most Iranians.
Posted by Wallace-Midland Texas on 2006 01 15 at 05:05 PM • permalinkIt’s always struck me as absolute madness for Australia to reject having any nuclear power stations here. For some strange reason we seem to witness a form or national paranoia whenever the subject appears. The only toe in the water has been / is the Research Reactor at Lucas Heights and even though that is the only source for medical isotopes in Australia, the greenies would have shut it down if they could. Still I guess greenies must like the taste of the sand where their heads are stuck.
The position with nuclear expertise in Australia is dire as now there is no nuclear engineering school at any Australian university.
When this is put in the context of our nearest neighbour, Indonesia planning to build nuclear stations (put on hold in the wake of the Asian currency meltdown a few years ago), what possible influence could we have to ensure that any construction in Indonesia is undertaken responsibly? As an amusing aside I proposed a nuclear station for the NT some years ago - I won’t go into details but there is plenty of uranium available locally and there are proven technologies to use it. Ho hum and then came the politics. [chuckle chuckle].
To make matters more challenging, NSW and Victoria have passed legislation prohibiting nuclear power.
So we have a choice to continue with our heads stuck in the ground where the greenies have ‘got us’ whilst the rest of the near world will no doubt move on and build their own nuclear plants or we can get with reality and join the club. I’m for joining the club. Say, maybe we could bring back Malcolm Fraser - how about a nuclear plant at Jervis Bay? Now there’s an idea.
Can Halliburton build a secret nukular waste dump under the Byron Bay sewers?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 06:43 PM • permalinkI don’t want nuclear power. I want nuclear weapons.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 01 15 at 07:58 PM • permalink#10 - Australia can’t legally have nuclear weapons as we are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear weapon state.
#3 - They are more normally described as Pebble Bed Modular Reactors (PBMR). The pebbles themselves are really cool - they are a shiny black and about the size of a cricket ball. The standard trick is to pretend you are handing them to somebody and then “accidentally” drop it and bounce it like a ball. The looks on people’s faces when somebody drops a fuel ball is priceless. Each pebble contains about 9g of 8% enriched uranium - the rest is just graphite and various containment materials.
The PBMR is an inherently safe design - they don’t need a coolant or any external moderator - they can’t generate sufficient heat to ignite or melt any of the internal components. Cool!
Russell — No worries, mate… the way Iran is carrying on that treaty has about a year left to run…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 10:30 PM • permalinkJust so you know what the dickheads are saying:
Incidently, the guy who runs the site is employed by monash university:
http://civil.eng.monash.edu.au/about/staff/gmudd
Posted by niobium2000 on 2006 01 15 at 10:42 PM • permalinkHeroic Greens save Solar System from nukular radiation!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 16 at 11:40 AM • permalink‘More Australians want nuclear power than oppose it.’
More Australians want the death penalty power than oppose it.
But you would never know either from any of the Oz media where Moral Vanity reigns OK.
We are ever only democratic when at least some of our politicians and media leaders have real guts.
They don’t, so we aren’t.
Oh I forgot Carr, who spoke up only as EX NSW leader.Following on, a lot of Australians don’t even know that the huge Roxby Downs mine, the saviour of South Australian’s economy and a massive national export success, would not exist if machine Labour politics had got its way in that state.
ALP policy was to shaft Roxby Downs’ uranium despite it being one of the richest mines in the world [and still growing], because of a greeny rigid anti-nuclear policy.
The spin was that we’d never make any money from uranium anyway.
Just one ALP member had the guts to cross the floor and vote for this mine, committing political suicide by that single, rational act.
So much for machine politics.
With it we get real progress by accident.
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Building reactors, isn’t that just asking for Godzilla attack? No wait, that was nuclear testing. Yeah, build the damn things.
Anyway, it’ll be worth it to hear the greenies heads explode as they try to simultaneously protest global warming AND doing something about it.