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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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JohnBennets. Your comments on SMR's potential for South Australian engineers and the potential for SA, with a soon to be 'reserve' of skilled personnel (as described above) from the automotive industry makes fascinating reading and exciting potential.

It is political will and vision that will see this happen. Plantagenet's concerns, comments etc re the military aspect of this discussion are worthy of exploration, but I can see no better environment than that of South Australia's stable geography, stable political system and skill base to overcome these issues.

These problems and research prospects would seem a worthwhile direction for the ARC to explore (as opposed to research $ into the efficacy of street art in communicate global warming to the masses) (sorry, sarc).

An interesting and absorbing discussion.
Posted by Prompete, Thursday, 13 February 2014 4:27:57 PM
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Coal fired Power Stations are out dated dying Technology. It would be cheaper to put 6kW on everybody's domestic roof free. Let Gas power run Industry during the day, if they haven't got Solar, & at night.

The Power Companies just have to adapt to changing Technology & learn run on reduced revenue & profits. The CEO will just have to get used to granting themselves lower Salaries, Bonuses & Perks. The same thing happened to Whale Oil, Horses, Corsets.
Posted by Jayb, Thursday, 13 February 2014 5:27:37 PM
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'Jayb' writes,

"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."

Nuclear waste can indeed be stored safely in the Outback, but that does not uniquely qualify it for the job. In casks such as those seen at http://goo.gl/maps/gDwia and at https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6mrb62bfe8seww/uww.jpg , the world's present accumulation of nuclear fuel that was retired five or more years ago could safely be stored in Vatican City.

That means caches like the one in the second link, which is in Ontario, where I live, could be shipped to Oz, but won't be. Like all nuclear power waste through all history, it has made no trouble.

Not for radiation-sensitive living things. But its existence implies trouble of a different kind: a large amount of government fossil fuel tax revenue has been cancelled. That means the Ontario and Canadian national governments don't want to ship it abroad and forget it. They want it to weigh on the minds of the easily deceived, so that nuclear power expansion doesn't take away *more* of their fossil fuel income.

If it *did* get shipped, it would probably not increase in value after decades of sitting at the destination. There is 1000 cubic miles of uranium dioxide in the Earth's continental crust, which is to the whole Earth as the residual skin on an apple that has been 71 percent peeled is to the apple.
Posted by GRLCowan, Friday, 14 February 2014 1:39:22 PM
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