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The ERA of uranium mining is over : Comments

By Dave Sweeney, published 9/4/2014

Minutes later came the unforgiving sound of peeling metal followed by a surge of over one million litres of highly acidic uranium slurry from the buckled and broken number one leach tank.

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Thorium pebble bed reactors? Tried out and failed in India and South Africa. http://nuclear-news.net/2010/09/24/death-of-the-pebble-bed-nuclear-reactor/#more-10465
Thorium reactors - Westinghouse abandoning its plans there - going for lucrative nuclear decommissioning instead http://nuclear-news.net/2014/04/05/westinghouse-to-go-in-to-lucrative-nuclear-decommissioning-out-of-small-modular-reactors-smrs/
UK government chooses deep burial of nuclear wastes rather than thorium reprocessing.
Thorium nuclear reactors just not happening. Nobody wants to invest in them
Posted by Noel.Wauchope, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 6:31:27 PM
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Thorium nuclear reactors have all the disadvantages of uranium fuelled reactors:
A terrorist target. Spectacularly expensive. Produces wastes which can be used to make nuclear weapons. Wastes smaller in volume, but intensely radioactive and long-lasting. The reactors themselves become radioactive trash.

But the bit that amuses me is: even if Thorium reactors ever did get off the ground, would that not ruin Australia's uranium industry?
Posted by Noel.Wauchope, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 6:37:20 PM
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Kakadu has the Ranger uranium mine smack in the middle of it. The reason why Kakadu is now a national park and not just "crown land" is because the motley collection of "environmental" groups agreed to not protest the presence of the ranger mine if only the government would declare the area around it a national park.

Before the ink was dry on the agreement, the greenies broke their word and started crying about the uranium mine in the national park. Go and live in Tasmania Steve. You can't seem to understand the connection between mining, industry and Australia's prosperity. If you want to live in a land where everybody is either working for the government, or is a client of the government, Tassie is for you.

It is just that we who live in the productive states where enterprise and development drive our economy are getting fed up of subsidising people like you. Perhaps Tasmania and South Australia could secede from the federation and you can all go and live as peasants in environmentally pure poverty while we get on with the job of building a prosperous nation that everybody in the world wants to live in.

The problem for you then, as with all government subsidised bankrupt societies that hate mines, dams, power stations and forestry industries, will be how are you going to keep your kids from fleeing poverty and going to live in the prosperous states? It's OK to be a reactionary who hates the means of production when you are young and mummy and daddy are paying the bills. But that can only last one generation before your own kids begin to realise that your backward thinking is not getting them anywhere and a generation gap ensues.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 10 April 2014 3:59:26 AM
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