The Forum > Article Comments > Nuclear Citizens' Jury: an ethical case for importing nuclear wastes > Comments
Nuclear Citizens' Jury: an ethical case for importing nuclear wastes : Comments
By Noel Wauchope, published 25/10/2016However, nuclear lobbyists have for a long time been promoting the idea that Australia has an ethical responsibility to import nuclear wastes.
- Pages:
-
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Page 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
-
- All
And given a molten salt reactor works at normal atmospheric pressure, no need for containment either in the reactor or building!
Whereas, a light water reactor may have to work at a mind boggling 1,000 atmospheres and need both containment vessel and a seriously hardened building! Which adds quite massively to the cost!
Plus, continual wide eyed around the clock operators immediately ready for any number of possible malfunctions, some of which may include a significant irradiation event or multiple fatalities! Ditto molten metal fast breeder reactors! The latter using plutonium!
Neither of which anyone with a still functioning brain would advocate? Either on massive roll out costs, deplorable safety record or prohibitive decommissioning costs!
And that's before you factor in the security levels required to keep the inevitable waste falling into hostile hands! Which by the way, could be made safer just by reprocessing it time and again in molten salt thorium slow breeder reactors.
I'd have/welcome a thorium reactor in my backyard, but none of the others!
Alan B.