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Kevin Scarce sometimes scarce on nuclear reality : Comments
By Noel Wauchope, published 7/7/2015On June 29 Kevin Scarce, chief of South Australia's Nuclear Royal Commission, was interviewed by Ian Henschke on ABC Radio 891 Adelaide.
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I think South Australia doesn't have the Critical Mass of money - $$Billions - required to start a nuclear industry. Neither does Abbott.
Notice how your critics adopt a We're tough blokes practical Engineers tone.
How about nuclear terrorism and unbalanced insider sabotage? If a bloke can crash his passenger jet how about an intentional dump. A problem that Nuclear Reactor Host States don't want to think about.
"...Japan [UK, US, France, Canada, South Korea] is no more immune to nuclear terrorism than it was to a catastrophic reactor accident [which happened at Fukushima]. In this context, the combination of safety and security concerns represented by spent fuel pools at reactors is a critical variable in the risk profile arising from the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Japan’s choices have global significance for the threat of nuclear terrorism, and therefore demands serious consideration as part of a national and international risk-benefit assessment of the future evolution of nuclear power." see http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=0de7e0e84dc3aff619f936a70&id=06f03f7a60&e=ae85b3aafb
All reactors produce some high level waste in fuel rod form requiring spent fuel pools to disperse the heat of the rods.
Claims for future (but not yet industrially developed) reactors are about as useful as claiming rocket assisted aircraft (feasible) can solve some passenger airline problems.
Engineer blokes with other people's money.