Nuclear Power

Con D. Oriano

Nuclear power is an extremely useful power source and the most safe source of power.

Solar and Wind kills more people on average than Nuclear does. (People falling off roofs or burning to death in the windmill)
It is sort of like how more people are scared of flying than driving a car, even though you are 1000 times more likely to have an accident on the roads.


But there are some issues with Nuclear which makes it harder for Australia to justify:
- Its expensive. (We don't have the population to demand that kind of output)
- Nuclear Fusion is 20 years away (it's been 20 years away for 40 years now)
- We have too much easily accessible renewables. Lots of sun and wind.

But battery storage is a big issue and China controls most of the worlds mines for rare earth metals.
Building batteries for electric cars and renewable storage will kill millions of animal species and destroy hundreds of forests.
There is always a price to pay.

We should invest in nuclear because we could export it to SE Asia, and reduce the world's fossil fuel dependence that way, create jobs and industry here.

khushi

Japanese island lies in a quake-prone zone. Despite that, they have numerous Nuclear Power plants operating quite safely. The accident at Fukushima was a one-off unfortunate disaster. We supply Uranium to the rest of the world but despite being in a relatively safe terrestrial zone, our politicians are scared of having our own Nuclear Power plants? Why? It is high time we should make use of our own Uranium, both for power generation but also for our defense.

Bazz

Actually, Japan doesn't have a Nuclear Reactor problem & nor does China & a whole host of other countries who have had it for decades. Such countries have Energy Sovereignty, which is much more than we'll ever have if we keep the status quo. They also have high-speed rail criss-crossing their countries & are pushing hard for a world land bridge to trade huge quantities at very high speeds (6350km/h) over vast distances by rail. They also have cheap, advanced desalinators, medicines, etc, etc.... and what do we have??? We will remain the "poor white trash of Asia" so long as we adopt pathetic solar & wind power or other intermittents when the people demand more & more power 24/7 with greater interconnectivity & lower costs of living instead of Austerity, division, hatred, debt & endless wars. Any centralized energy source can be sabotaged, not just nuclear, which is precisely what happened in Japan's case & quite possibly every other case, as opposed to the rubbish the Authorities told us in the Owned Mass-Media.

Con D. Oriano

Actually, Japan doesn't have a Nuclear Reactor problem & nor does China & a whole host of other countries who have had it for decades. Such countries have Energy Sovereignty, which is much more...

We don't have the population to justify it unfortunately. :/

TayNiffler

i do not like it as just like coal power and gas it is not renewable and we would run out of uranium just like we will eventually of coal and gas as it takes a very long time to form these

Con D. Oriano

i do not like it as just like coal power and gas it is not renewable and we would run out of uranium just like we will eventually of coal and gas as it takes a very long time to form these

Except we use 100's of tonnes of gas and coal, but nuclear only uses kilos!

It's so much less, for much more energy provided, and the waste is just water.

Yes, we need to bury nuclear fuel, but it's not like we don't have the mining equipment here.

Leonardus

Yes, not too keen on nuclear power.

Bazz

Do you know the truth about what happened in Japan? Japan's reactors were built with the entire history of all recorded Tsunami's taken into account. THAT was NOT a naturally occurring Tsunami... it was much, much bigger. How many were killed Due to the Radiation at Chernobyl & Three Mile Island? Not sick & recovered, not killed by an explosion, etc... I attended those Open Democracy meetings discussing a Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in SA, which were hijacked by ill-informed "green" activists who did not know the facts & refused to hear anything factually & scientifically correct that contradicted their own feelings. Why not listen to Nuclear Scientists so you can form a balanced opinion?

Con D. Oriano

Do you know the truth about what happened in Japan? Japan's reactors were built with the entire history of all recorded Tsunami's taken into account. THAT was NOT a naturally occurring Tsunami......

Nuclear is the greenest source of energy, and the safest.

But it's like aircraft, people are scared of it.

afn1960

There is already enough damage to the Earth from all the Nuclear Bomb ( aprox 230) Tests that have been done to date, how much Nuclear crap is too much, has anyone investigated Global Warming from the damage Already done .
Nuclear has no future for the damage it has done, will do and then there is the waste , where do you dump Nuclear Waste without damaging the Earth in any way, shape or form ?
There are less damaging Fuels to use if the Gov., Scientists and Rocket Scientists would start thinking about the future of the World and Humanity not about their Financial prospects.

Bren40

Nuclear is ideally suited for use in Australia. All the nuclear disasters that have occurred in the past were a result of poor planning/management. We all know the soviets cut many corners on maintenance of the Chernobyl reactors which led to that disaster and the Fukushima plant was also found to be behind on maintenance schedules and located in an area prone to severe earthquakes. Australia has a stable geology and vast amounts of space a distance from cities which would provide perfect locations for power plants of this type. Also greater accountability with maintenance would prevent problems in this area and I am sure the technology has improved greatly since those plants which were both built 30 years ago.

Debbie

We should all be very worried about the current concept of South Australia becoming a Nuclear Dump. I live in the mid north of SA and we have been told that just a few hours north of us there will be a 'low level' Nuclear dump. We all know that once it is there they will bring in all the waste from overseas. We all need to get on board now and help stop this before we doom future generations to life of illness. There has never been a successful Nuclear dump or reactor that has not claimed lives and created many diseases. Madame Curie's equipment, clothes etc are still being contained to this day.....what does that say!!!! C'mon Aussies!!!

s

I do not like nuclear power as we have seen it is too dangerous.
As we have seen accidents do happen.

Anonymous

I am happy that NZ is nuclear free and hope we stay that way. Nuclear power is too dangerous and destructive to our environment.

June

Do you know the truth about what happened in Japan? Japan's reactors were built with the entire history of all recorded Tsunami's taken into account. THAT was NOT a naturally occurring Tsunami......

Thanks Nutalie, I am glad others feel the same way I do. I definately think the cons outweigh the pros as far as Nuclear Ower is concerned.

Anonymous

iam with you about nuklear i hate it to , i dont want it , rose

June

Do you know the truth about what happened in Japan? Japan's reactors were built with the entire history of all recorded Tsunami's taken into account. THAT was NOT a naturally occurring Tsunami......

Thanks Rose, the thought of it makes me feel very uneasy and there are alternative powers to nuclear, such as Wind, Solar etc.,