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G'day bruce,
We could use that term to describe the Lefties who believe they'll be spared when the crap hits the fan blades.
Nukes are are both a blessing & a curse. Depends which side you're on. I'd think by now there's enough proof that small power plants are reasonably safe whereas large ones are uncontrollable.
In sensible hands they could be quite safe but get the experts in & you're asking for trouble.
Same goes for everything really.

Dearest G'dayBruce

On this, this Saturday night, as I prepare to meat ram my babe (a fully grown female) I am distracted by your most puzzling post.

What in Allah's green Earth are U babbling about?

Fair go mate. Nil coitus desperandum.

As the pork sword thrusteth into fluid fields I shalt be thinking of you.

Butt severly puzzling.

Peter Peck-her.

I stand by my position that Sweeney's career-long conflation of weapons with electricity production is a ludicrous red herring. If a nation truly wants nuclear weapons, trying to restrict external supply of uranium isn't going to stop them. The stuff can be extracted from seawater if need be, and still only be a tiny fraction of the weapon development and production cost. Export restrictions have done nothing for non-proliferation; their only effect has been to make coal look more reliable and attractive for power generation. That's the true disaster, and Sweeney bears significant responsibility for it.

"There are none so blind as those who WILL not see".

A very appropiate phrase. If only people would actually look at the facts & actual risks (not the codswallop spruiked by the "useful idiots" like Caldicott) and compare all the different power generation alternatives, they would actually see!

Dave Sweeny is another anti nuclear luddite but some of what his has written is absolutely true.

Australia should not sell uranium to India because their "assurances" are not worth a cracker. India gained it's nuclear technology from Western nations (notably Canada) after giving the same 'assurances" that it would not use the technology to build a bomb. Trust is an ephemeral thing. Once one side has violated a trust the other can hardly trust them again. This prompted Indian's blood enemies the Pakistanis to do the same thing, and now we have an "Islamic" bomb in a dysfunctional society full of violent religious nutters. Thank you India. Fark you very much.

Second, the Indian nuclear industry is shrouded in total official secrecy for good reason. It is so unsafe that it barely comprehensible. One four corners expose' (Yeah, I know it was the ABC and it can't be trusted either) showed villagers bathing and cleaning their teeth in a radioactive settling pond next to a reactor. Another segment claimed that the Indians used human beings instead of robots to clean reactors because people are cheap but robots expensive. You read me right, human beings. They give a queue of miserably poor schmucks a mop and a bucket and a guy stands next to a entry portal to the reactor vessel with a stopwatch. Each man in the qqueue get 90 seconds inside the reactor to clean it. It's a once in a lifetime job. But some schmucks are so poor that they go around for seconds and maybe even thirds.

Finally, there is the little matter of India and Pakistan nearly pushing their buttons when a large meteorite fell on the border between the two of them and sent up a mushroom cloud. Thank God NASA reached both of them in time to tell them it was a large meteorite they had been tracking or the idiots would have vapourised the whole sub continent.

If India wants our uranium, then giving up it's nuclear weapons is the first step. Second step, is media scrutiny of Indian nuclear safety.

Not only sea water Mark, but smokestack emission as well, and quite easy to extract!
Yet where are those activists on coal!
It's not Nuclear that is melting the tundra, but fossil fuels.
So why not sell some non-carbon fuels to the worst emitters!
And allow the world to reduce the TOTAL carbon emission that is currently melting the formerly frozen permafrost!
Or if the activists get their way; burn even more coal instead, to deliver just 20% of the power, that we could create, turning onsite biological waste into energy.
And save a few million trees in the process.
If the anti nuke brigade were fair dinkum, they would be putting their money where their million mile wide mouths are, and funding some of these very alternative affordable projects, where they claim the greatest harm is being done.
Part of the problem is ignorance and people who just don't get it. i.e., a nuclear power station cooling pond, is not for drinking or bathing in!
And if clearly understood pictorial signs are just ignored, it's hardly the fault of the power authority.
And lifting millions out of poverty, is never ever entirely risk free!
And a very small activist minority, have cried wolf to the point, where no one now listens!
Rhrosty.