runner,

I can't see Australia being attractive to investors now. If they wait long enough, though, they'll be able to buy the whole shebang cheap they way things are going.

As for the nuclear waste that seems to worry people, there have been nuclear power plants since since 1954, so there's a lot of it around, and I don't recall any problems with waste in 65 years.

Has anyone ever been concerned about waste from Lucas Heights, I wonder.

There is non so dumb as those who refuse to see.

Not sure hasbeen who you target, it is a big group
But until death know,Nuclear is the path
Yes others took risks and wesaw the results
We can and will, use it with safety

Nuclear waste? About a cubic meter per GWH generating capacity per year for the current reactors using about 1% of the energy of the fuel. If all our electricity came from nuclear we would have less than fifty cubic metres of waste to deal with annually. Australia should be taking the world's nuclear waste while countries are willing to pay so much to dispose of it. With gen 4 reactors the waste could become a valuable resource.

As for renewables being cheaper than coal, when you start calculating the cost of 24/7 supply, renewable energy is many times the cost of coal fired power. It is multiples of the cost of nuclear as well, even using the dodgy cost estimates of the CSIRO.

Interesting news from the UK on energy production. Since all subsidies on roof top panels were dropped in April of this year, orders and installations have plummeted by 94%. That says a lot about the sincerity of punters and their planet-saving enthusiasm

Hi Fester,

Fifty cubic metres per year ? That's barely a container-load - 2 metres high, 3 metres across and 8 metres long. Wouldn't it be possible to load that up, ship it out into an uninhabitable area, and stick it in a hole wrapped in lead ? Until the technology is available to completely process it ? Shows how much I know :)

Joe