The National Forum   Donate   Your Account   On Line Opinion   Forum   Blogs   Polling   About   
The Forum - On Line Opinion's article discussion area



Syndicate
RSS/XML


RSS 2.0

Main Articles General

Sign In      Register

The Forum > Article Comments > They've resuscitated the plan for South Australia as the world's nuclear waste dump > Comments

They've resuscitated the plan for South Australia as the world's nuclear waste dump : Comments

By Noel Wauchope, published 11/2/2014

Exquisite timing, because the South Australian election is on February 15, and Krieg's talk on this prestigious science program is the last effort of that State's nuclear lobby to get their cause up as an election issue.

  1. Pages:
  2. Page 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. All
I think storing Nuclear Waste in Australia is a very good idea. Australia is a vast uninhabited land. Nuclear wast could be stored here safely. There are no major Earthquake fault lines to damage the storage facility. The Countries with Nuclear Waste can pay Australia to Store it. We would own it & eventually, when they find a way to utilize the waste Australia will have it all. It would be safe from theft by terrorists. When Countries want to use the waste to generate energy again then they can buy it off us. Win, Win for Australia.
Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 9:19:47 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Only a small point but I think the SA election is 15 March (the Ides).
Posted by Malcolm 'Paddy' King, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 9:20:54 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
My thanks, Malcolm 'Paddy' King, - you're so right!
That blows out my argument about the "last ditch" before the election.

Well - there will now be plenty of opportunity for more "last ditches"before March 15.

I think they should just change the State's name to South BHP-Billitionia. It's really all about saving BHP's financial bacon, as Olympic Dam is not too profitable, now. Import nuclear wastes. Get the tax-payer to fork out for the costs, give the profits to BHP, and rave on about "clean jobs" for South BHPBillitonia.

A bit of a pity - as the former South Australia (pre S. BHPBillitonia) could have done so well with renewable energy, which can partner with agriculture - sheep and wheat can share the land farming with wind and solar.
Posted by Noel.Wauchope, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 9:35:09 AM
Find out more about this user Visit this user's webpage Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Thank you for publishing a long list of names and organisations. It clearly indicates that many trained minds and people of good faith wish to at least consider nuclear options on their merits, rather than on spin and hyperbole. To the extent that each one of them seeks to have a broad, factual, open discussion on the subject, they should be commended.

Environmental concerns are the most important globally in the long run, yet they so often are dismissed on commercial grounds or discussed only at an emotional level. This well-intentioned yet misguided author has adopted an unquestioning yet questionable emotive stance on a few things, such as:
THAT Fukishima is a nuclear disaster. Over-reaction, scaremongering and poor management have multiplied the problems many times over. Remember, not a single person has died due to radiation, yet the loss of well over 10,000 lives due to the tsunami which preceded the power failures at the power plant has been accepted without public criticism and the loss of life due to avoidable societal breakdown, personal loss and depression continues. Why?
ACCUSING all people who tweet in favour of considering nuclear power of being paid to do so. That is essentially just an attack on free speech. It is a silly thing to write.
THE last sentence is an unacceptable slur on a person specifically because she is qualified in the area in which she has expressed an opinion. That is reprehensible.

Perhaps by accident, then, this article will prompt informed future discussion of Australia's and the world's energy future.

I remain unconvinced that the 'wind+solar" approach will lead to an adequate electricity outcome.

Society will sooner or later (too late?) demand, either country by country, or via an enforceable world-wide treaty, that fossil fuels must stay in the ground.

Where will the world obtain supplies of post-fossil energy, especially electrical energy? Carbon free, safe, stable, reliable and affordable electricity will be needed globally, but where will it come from? That is the real question.

All other questions are, relatively speaking, either name-calling or minor details.
Posted by JohnBennetts, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 9:51:16 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Did the proponents of nuclear energy “all” “go quiet” after Fukushima, or were they just drowned out by the knee-jerk reactions of the Australian media and the rest of the Left wind mill brigade?

“These South Australians get inspiration from both national and overseas nuclear advocates.” And? This one liner makes it sound like a crime; unlike, of course, the dark-age mourners who get their inspiration from bats in the belfry. It’s hard to decide whether the people who think that the world can continue to flourish with old ‘technology’, like windmills or solar panels, are childishly naïve, or just bloody-minded.

Certainly, South Australia’s economy is “depressed”, thanks to Labor from Rann to the totally incompetent Wetherill. Labor will go next month, but they haven’t come up with one idea that has worked (just deepened the state of decay); and the Liberals under the untried Steve Marshall don’t want to say much except that they will do whatever it takes. But, as the author says, they don’t have a nuclear policy either.

So, why should South Australians not listen to the well-respected Prof. Brooks and the business leaders when they have finally woken up to Labor, and have no idea what the Liberals will be like. Somebody has to come up with something to scrape off the rust, and it looks like it will not be a politician – as usual.

Noel surely doesn’t think that people who do have the knowledge he mentions would not be engaged prior to any moves made? And, his “last ditch before the election” is a little purple, given that neither gang of thick politicians will go ahead with it anyway. Sure, we are only slightly ahead of Tasmania in the rust bucket states, but we do have some clever people here – except for the pollies, of course, who are the reason for the perilous state of our economy.

It’s a bit ‘off’ that we mine and sell stuff for good money to other countries when it is not safe enough for ourselves.
Posted by NeverTrustPoliticians, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 10:45:08 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
Good idea, it has to go somewhere, and the rent received could completely resuscitate, the SA economy.
The dangers that are always trotted out as objections, are around fifty years out of date, and when FBR becomes an essential reality, this stuff will be worth much more than any of the yellow cake we are currently exporting!
As a large supplier of uranium, we could limit the potential harm this product could cause, by enriching it ourselves, and then taking it back, once it is completely depleted as peaceful purpose fuel.
The current problem we as a species and the world faces is carbon, not nuclear fuel, or it's waste products!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 11:37:39 AM
Find out more about this user Recommend this comment for deletion Return to top of page Return to Forum Main Page Copy comment URL to clipboard
  1. Pages:
  2. Page 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. All

About Us :: Search :: Discuss :: Feedback :: Legals :: Privacy