Bazz it is you who is indulging in fantasy, nuclear energy just simply is not sustainable. Aside from the fact nuclear resources have peaked nuclear energy is far too expensive and requires massive subsidisation by tax payers. Nuclear power plants are too short lived to be a part of an energy solution. Nuclear energy creates far too much pollution to power up to make it a credible greenhouse alternative. Every nuclear power plant ever built has experienced accidents health risk to surrounding communities is high. Where nuclear power stations are built local land prices fall which means the poorest are condemned to become the victims of nuclear energy. Of major disaster the risks are massive and once occur then there is no containment whatso ever outside of comic books and radiation spatially spreads. What are you suggesting? We build expensive white elephants which have the potential to destroy a lot of life and will definetely contribute to climate change just to power your christmas lights for a couple of years?

Bazz

Proponents of all things nuked must, by their own admission, purport that climate change is anthropogenic. Therefore, despite the federal government's claim they are meeting their carbon targets, their very own National Pollutant Inventory tells a different story (www.npi.gov.au). The following figures are for one Australian uranium mine only. Should Western Australia be forced to establish new uranium mines, of which there are plenty, then we are truly damned!:

.....................2004............................2005

CO...........10,000kgs.....................360,000kgs
NOx.........240,000..................... 1,200,000
PM............. 85,000........................270,000
SO2.........790,000......................1,300,000
VOC...............1,400.........................72,000

The above increases in just one year, for one mine are shameful, given that we sheep are constantly reminded of the need to reduce our energy needs. Therefore, until governments cease their spin doctoring and properly enforce regulations which guarantees a reduction in industrial carbon emissions, the degradation of our environment will continue.

Even you should know that to establish nuclear power in Australia is simply a money grabbing exercise by profiteers and will do nothing to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions!

I have filed the above figures under "Exploitation of the Masses!"