Aiden, good fact checking, BUT I reckon the author is not to focused on facts given here track record as an activist.

But while awaiting Alan B, arrival to this discussion and preparing food beverages for a should be cracker event...

Consider responding to my 2 responses to your three over on Essery COVIFD-19 article of Yesterday. I sincerely would love and honestly appreciate the response to my second challenge, I' even over you a virtual glass of your favourite tipple.

Aidan I should have said fossil fuels I was trying to mention coal specifically.

The point remains that after billions of dollars, nearly 20 years of the RET, the emissions reduction fund and a couple of years of carbon tax Australia's electricity should be low carbon by now. It isn't so we need to try something else.

I think 'Noel' is actually a Christina.

Sorry, just not conclusive, credible or convincing!

As always, with this ignorance personified, Author, predicated on the sky will fall, BS writ large, broken record rhetoric, fearmongering of the worst kind!

Covid-19 just doesn't do as well in populations where the background radiation is higher/double. The study of homeosis.

And some potential nuclear power, uses fuel less radioactive in its natural state, than a banana!

To access some of the radioactive fuel in an MSR, the terrorist must get past passive security. And armed, with shoot to kill, security then break through concrete, then the double-wall, steel water jacket and remove around thirty tons of, beyond white-hot, giving off enough gamma to kill a horse in five, liquid!

And then get it out while gamma sensing satellites are screaming, warning, warning, security breach!

And, make no mistake, see several jets/choppers scrambled with rockets that will kill all the miscreants and their vehicles, once they and their load are in the open. Or on the open ocean!

The gamma count screaming, here we are, here we are, aim your gamma guided response right here!

To get a small sample, one would need to break open a reactor with maybe one/two hundred tons of white-hot molten material just to get a couple of grams!

Anyone who thinks hey can just remove a small sample, hasn't a clue about the internal workings of MSR! Or that the material will not kill its possessor in minutes, is demented beyond description.

I could remove some but I'd need an armoured tank and a couple of robots. even then I wouldn't be able to get it off of the continent without paying with my life!

Security can be remotely controlled mate, even from a sickbed! And from a distance and a secret location!

Stop it now before it falls off!
Alan B.

Oh dear!

More wishful thinking by the ratbag fringe.

While Noel, aka Christina, taught science (type of science not given),she switched to nursing and did some health studies.

She has omitted the qualifications that apparently entitle her to lecture us on things nuclear.

Noel's concerns are well taken. ASIO’s CORPORATE PLAN 2007 TO 2011

had concerns about radiological and nuclear terrorism on page 9:

"The next five years will be challenging both at home and abroad, and will be characterised by:

- the persistent terrorist threat from Islamic extremists, including the potential use of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials;"

see my 2007 article http://www.newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=3241

Note ASIO Corporate Plans remain publically available documents - see http://www.asio.gov.au/corporate-plan.html
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RADIOLOGICAL Threats

Most current nuclear threats are "radiological", which means situations in which radioactive material is released without an actual nuclear explosion. This may involve accidental spills of radioactive material that is mined, transported or stored or Radiological Terrorism.

Radiological Terrorism may come in the form of dirty bombs, where terrorists use high explosive to distribute highly radioactive material over key parts of a city.

Dispersal through an accident or sabotage at Australia's one nuclear reactor site, at Lucas Heights, is also possible.

Radiological threats of all types will increase if Australia opts to build reactors for nuclear power using and yielding highly radioactive material.