First rule of Advertising. Create a fear, even if none exists.

Remember the Bombs dropped on Nagasaki & Hiroshima. In 10 years they had rebuilt a thriving City on the site. Today millions of people live on the spot where the Bombs were dropped without harm.

Nuclear Power Generation is the way to go. but NOT on fault lines. How bl00dy stupid was that? Duh!

To all those in favour of nuclear power generation, what are you going to do with the highly radioactive waste products?
When the cost of construction is taken into account, Nuclear doesn't stack up.
When the ongoing fuel costs are considered, nuclear is a disaster.
If you are interested in long term solutions to energy provision, the inexhaustible 'fuel' of solar and wind and waves make the finite supplies of uranium an unattractive investment.

ypgirp: what are you going to do with the highly radioactive waste products?

We have large empty spaces in Australia. Make it compulsory to store it here. We could charge the World to store it until we find some way to use the waste & that will happen. Then we can sell it back to them at a profit. It will be away Rouge States who would use the waste for illegitimate purposes. Added bonus.

Ybgirp: If you are interested in long term solutions to energy provision, the inexhaustible 'fuel' of solar and wind and waves.

I agree. The Carbon Tax would supply every house in Australia with a free 3kW Solar Panel kit. Wind is great, pushed by the or years then abandoned when they started to actually build them. Wave techno elegy is great in areas where it would suit but I could see the fisheries & the Greens getting upset again.

The dirty Power Generation Companies know they are in a dying industry (like Whale Oil) & they don't want to let go, so they lobby the Government hard.

Prigby,

What to do with the waste. Do as France does, reprocess the waste, recover the unused fuel, re enrich the rods, and reduce the volume of waste by 99%.

The cost of construction is the single largest cost. The cost of fuel per kWh is about 1/10th of that for coal and 1/20th of that for gas. The total cost of generation incl construction costs is about 2x that of coal and on a par with gas.

There is sufficient uranium for many centuries of generation, and thorium for hundreds of millennia.

There is no reliable renewable power supply that comes anywhere near as cheap as nuclear.

Foyle
interesting stuff on Taiwan but how come they got exposed? Got a reference or some indication where I could look it up?

Have to agree with Foyle and Peter Lang.
Interestingly, the Japanese authorities are apparently cleaning up contaminated soil samples, with a lower rad output than that generated as background by buildings built of granite.
Generations of Scots have lived and worked in these buildings, with no alarming aspects or reported higher cancer incidences.
Thorium is clearly the way to go.
There is no weapons spin-off!
The tiny amount of waste produced, is far less toxic than that produced by oxide reactors; and what waste is produced, is eminently suitable as long life space batteries.
Fear mongering and misinformation by anti industry anti development proponents, is the only reason we aren't already enjoying the benefits of this energy, and the high tech future it could create for us.
It is not nuclear conflagration or the odd nuclear accident that is threatening the planet with mass annihilation, but Carbon pollution!
Turning our collective backs on cheaper carbon free energy, is all but condemning many nations, the poorest and most populous, to remain a captive of the fossil fuel industry.
Even the former Leader of Greenpeace has seen the light, and the need to accept the nuclear alternative.
But then he is unusually bright for a green advocate?
Thorium reactors, at the rate of one a day Foyle?
Wow, the Chinese are about to grab the high tech industries of the world, if we fail to recognise the opportunities, we have, while they still present/exist.
We do have a lot of thorium and enough to power the world for 600 years?
Rhrosty.