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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.

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Apart from a little wine, & dairy products, there is not much use for South Australia. Lets face it, without them pinching water from the eastern states, there would be none of them either.

About the only reason for settling there was it avoided the dangerous trip through Bass strait, & the hard slog up the east coast, [in a sailing ship], to get to Sydney. Still I suppose the same could be said about Melbourne.

So South Oz is not much use for anything, & if we have enough sense to never build another navy vessel there, no work either. It is also a serious economic drag on the east & west of the country, which is becoming harder to support.

One of the few things they have been good at is digging up uranium, so they would probably be good at burying the used stuff too. There would only be a couple of hundred thousand people required then, for a short but rich & happy life in the radiation, & the rest could migrate to somewhere with enough water to sustain life as we know it.

So that's South Oz taken care of, all we have to do now is get rid of Tasmania. What are the chances of giving it to the Kiwis? Yer, they are not that dumb. How about we give it to the boat people, but without all the foreign aid we poor into the place now? Would it drift away if we cut the tow rope?

Hell in just 5 minutes planning we have the rest of Oz back in the financial land of the living. See things aren't that hard really.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 11:44:17 AM
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About all large parts of SA is good for is as a nuclear waste dump but there is no possibility of it happening in Aus in the forseeable future, as the politicians quoted point out. The public are far too scared of all things nuclear for the idea to get up. Teh author should know this.

From that point of view the article is a waste of space and time.
Posted by Curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:22:56 PM
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To Hasbeen - What an appropriate name!.
South Australia is a beautiful State, with the potential for beautiful and positive activities. Its agricultural potential is enhanced by new developments in solar technology. Solar photovoltaics can now be organised so as to farm the sunlight while simultaneously protecting horticulture from excessive sunlight and using water conservatively.

South Australia is already Australia's renewable energy leader, lowering greenhouse emissions, and bringing down electricity costs. Renewable energy growth will provide much CLEAN employment
South Australia has the most beautiful scenery, it's a magnet for tourists,whether for its landscape and history, or for its wineries and its internationally acclaimed arts and festivals.

South Australia has its special history - never having been a prison colony led it to be a proud State, valuing its history, arts and Aboriginal heritage,
It saddens me to see South Australia written off as the junk place of our nation, fit only to be the world's radioactive trash dump, making $billions for a few greedy people.
Posted by Noel.Wauchope, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:24:53 PM
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A very usefull article, it gave lots of links to intelligent, well argued and positive lines of enquiry for those seeking information on the soundness of not only joining but actually leading the world in high tech fuel cycle participation.

South Australia has all the attributes for leading the world in future energy solutions.

Thanks Noel
Posted by Prompete, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 1:21:46 PM
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Noel - while it is good that you defend your own state and there are many good points about it - much of it is desert. They even managed to let off atomic bombs in it way back, without anyone noticing much.

But if you really liked the state why do you encourage the construction of unsightly alternative energy projects, of marginal economic utility and of limited use in the electricity industry?

I also read about that project using solar power to grow high value crops in one part of the state.. no way it will ever be economic - and this sort of stuff is encouraged...
Posted by Curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 3:52:02 PM
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Come on Noel, "South Australia is already Australia's renewable energy leader, lowering greenhouse emissions", sorry can't let you get away with that one. When we take the full life emissions of green energy, we find no savings or in fact that it is less green than coal.

You go on, " and bringing down electricity costs". Perhaps that is why South Oz has the highest electricity charges in the nation.

Even more, "Renewable energy growth will provide much CLEAN employment", you should try selling that to Obama & his ratbag mates in their EPA. They would be the only ones stupid enough to believe that fairytale, & it has cost them billions so far, & lost jobs.

I suppose you could try Spain. A university study there found each green job cost 2 REAL jobs in the real economy.

Actually Noel, I rather like SA, but it really is time you started paying your own way, as value for money, you are a dead loss to the rest of the mainland. Tasmania is prettier, closer, & costs a hell of a lot less to keep
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 4:24:59 PM
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