Why don't the Anti Nuclear mutts admit that aircraft carriers, submarines & other ships have successfully cruised the seven Seas for many decades now without incidents.
Why are these vessels safe ? Because they have operators who are disciplined with a healthy mentality & who aren't insipid Lefties mulling around UNI aimlessly !

Good point, individual. The reason the "mutts" don't realise it is because they are ideologues who can't think for themselves; all except Pete, who is a dear, really.

Individual,

There's a wonderful Iranian refugee surgeon who mentioned casually on TV a few weeks ago that he had fitted a nuclear-powered pace-maker in one bloke, plutonium-based, and had had no trouble so far.

So if nuclear power can be installed in someone's chest, and like you say, in submarines etc., without giving any trouble over many decades, surely the latest nuclear technology would be quite safe ? France and Finland rely on nuclear power generation and don't seem to have any major accidents.

Of course, nobody in their right minds would be adopting sixty- and seventy-year-old technology like at Chernobyl, nor build a nuclear power plant 50 metres from the beach along a tsunami-prone coast. So let's dispose of those sorts of pseudo-issues.

Joe

Dearest individual

There is a long list of catastrophic, fatal, nuclear reactor leaks on Soviet/Russian nuclear submarines.

eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19#Nuclear_accident

If you want further examples, pray sing out.

Pete

Taswegian,
I see you're behind the times again!

Firstly, SA's gas supply is not solely reliant on the Moomba to Adelaide pipeline. For the last 16 years there's also been a pipeline connecting to a second source of gas: the Otway Basin. The energy security issues were recognised and dealt with.

Secondly, although SA has been far more reliant on gas for its electricity generation than the other states have, that is diminishing. Despite the closure of all the coal fired power stations, gas's share has fallen substantially, losing out to wind and solar.

There is a long list of catastrophic, fatal, nuclear reactor leaks on Soviet/Russian nuclear submarines.
Plantagenet,
Loudmouth2 already answered this in his last sentence.