People can be relied upon to think rationally when all other means are exhausted.

Nuclear energy is and always was the energy source of the future for an energy hungry world. It baggers belief that Australia, with abundant supplies of uranium refuses to acknowledge this inconvenient truth. But nuclear energy will eventually be used in Australia because sooner or later the socialists holding this country back will eventually get back into power, and make such a dog's breakfast of the economy, that they will be swept away in a wave of electoral discontent that intelligent people will be elected into government.

The Greens oppose fossil fuels, hydro electricity, and nuclear energy, which just happens to constitute around 95% of the world's energy output. They are living in fantasyland. Future historians will marvel at how educated ands supposedly intelligent people could be mesmerised into accepting a quasi religious belief system which is inimitable to their own survival.

Labor and the Greens are not much better, both are in thrall to this human induced global warming religion which is looking more shonky year by year, as global temperatures refuse to rise.

Build some more coal fired power stations as an interim measure until we can get our nuclear energy system up and running. We can mine it, reprocess it, and dispose of it safely because of our unique geography of stable rock formations.

Then buy some 688 class nuclear submarines off the yanks instead of these shonky French subs that everybody on planet Earth knows will be a catastrophe, both militarily and financially.

Lego.

*...that they will be swept away in a wave of electoral discontent that intelligent people will be elected into government...*

Sadly Lego, no. Do you rember Julia Gillard? What a nightmare! Then were presented with Shorten as an alternative. The less comment on him the better.

The alternative camp which slithered into power with its own special brand of corruption, but singing from the same song sheet, is not Democracy.

What that situation says to me is, that nothing is ever likely to changes with the entrenched political system of the West; and certainly not through the electoral system at our disposal, which dishes this entrenchment up as Democracy.

So how do the ordinary folk claim a stake in their own future, if we remain chained to a corrupted system which ignores our own best interests, but more particularly, the genuine interests of a broader society?

Dan

Labor party policy is against Nuclear power! When asked to explain the alternative energy minister, said and I quote, nuclear energy is against party policy. When asked why, this genius replied, it's against Labor party policy.

I can train a pea brain parrot to say and endlessly repeat that garbage. Or better yet a brainless broken record!

The coalition is energy agnostic, but recently were considering using taxpayers funds to build a coal-fired power station when the normal finance houses and due diligence declined.

Uranium (which is as rare as platinum and requires expensive enrichment, has a half-life of around 5 billion years, meaning we will eventually need to replace this fuel with something better and more abundant. And that something is thorium. Thorium has a half-life of around 15 billion years (is as abundant as lead) and exceeds the expect life f the universe at 13 billion years.
Meaning, we can never ever run out of it!

Compare these two reactors, a light water enriched nuclear-powered reactor of 350 MW. Over and operational lifetime of 30 odd years, it will require 2551 tons of enriched uranium. And will burn less than 1% of it!

Now take a walk away safe. MSR a FUJI 350MW using thorium as the primary fuel. Will during an operation lifetime of thirty years require 1 ton of refined thorium and of that burns a tad north of 99%, leaving a far less toxic waste as the byproduct.

. Which just happens to be eminently suitable as long life space batteries, that burn up with reentry.
TBC Alan B.

Cont. A light water reactor, needs 2551 tons of fuel during an operational thirty year, lifetime.

Burns less than 1% of it, meaning, it has to create in the process, 2550 tons of highly toxic waste with a half-life of thousands of years. However, not as radioactive as that may infer, given the longer the half-life the fewer rads emitted per hour!

And means uranium as the ore is not particularly dangerous and thorium as the refined mineral is, ton for ton, or gram for gam, less radioactive than a banana.

Some communities are exposed to double the national average of radiation exposure and the study of homeosis has shown they're on average, healthier than the national average, meaning some exposure is not only not harmful but may have some health benefits/protection?

The alpha particle bismuth 213 the decay product of U233, which is what thorium becomes when irradiated in the blanket of an operational reactor.

In numerous trials around the world, credible peer-reviewed reports indicate that bismuth 213, when attached to appropriate antibodies has cured numerous death sentence cancers. Cancers like stage four ovarian cancer and some very nasty brain cancers.

[The average life span of a brain cancer patient, for diagnosis to death, averages 14 months. With less than 2% surviving beyond 5 years!
I asked an oncologist, what was the difference between a benign cancer and a malignant one? His reply? About 12 months!]

Both the cancer types, remain stubbornly terminal and each produces an annual death toll the world over, greater than the annual road toll!

Yet we could have, I believe, eliminated most of that toll HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ANNUALLY anytime in the last fifty-seventy years, I believe, by accepting MSR thorium and deploying its byproduct, bismuth 213 in the fight by CONVENTIONAL, RADIOISOTOPE medicine, against death sentence cancers!

THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE. AND EVEN WORSE, WHEN THAT BLINDNESS IS BLATANTLY WILLFULL!
Alan B.

Hang on. If we went to nuclear power, that might queer the pitch of the wind, sun and climate rent seekers and crooks.

Nuclear & add birth control to that !