Hi Foxy

Re: "a nuclear industry and pool of technical expertise to support nuclear submarines and

a cadre of nuclear-trained engineer officers."

1. It first starts with Generalist Nuclear Expertise

Australia has already spent $100s millions over the years educating a corps of nuclear experts who

have staffed/still staff a succession of experimental+medical isotope nuclear reactors at

the Lucas Heights, Sydney, Nuclear Reactor Complex see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-pool_Australian_lightwater_reactor

This is under the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Nuclear_Science_and_Technology_Organisation

ANSTO have other, smaller, nuclear research facilities in Australia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Nuclear_Science_and_Technology_Organisation#Structure

There have been no major nuclear accidents on Western (US, UK, French) nuclear submarines for decades.
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US nuclear submarines regularly visit Australia's major west coast naval base just south of Perth.

UK and French nuclear subs also visit there, but less frequently.

A French nuclear submarine visited that Australian base earlier this month - see http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2020/11/australia-currently-hosting-french.html

I could write a book about this subject so I'll respond a little at a time.

Cheers

Pete

Pete,

My understanding is that people confuse nuclear subs with nuclear weapons.

So are we talking about nuclear powered subs with conventional weapons or subs with nuclear weapons?

Pete, your mind is stuck in the past, not the future. Although we don't know what China will be like in 2030, we do have enough information to rule out the scenario of it invading Australia. Unfortunately we can't yet rule out its spies conducting assassinations in Australia. That's the sort of danger we may be facing if China becomes a more serious threat to us, and having nukes would be totally useless at preventing it.

Forget spending billions we don't have on nuclear missiles and let's just send Soot and the team to Beijing to crawl on their hands and knees to Xi and ask forgiveness for getting China angry with Australia.

PS They can keep Soot and boys.

Australia post WWII should have pursued a non-aligned policy, which would have kept us out of American wars of aggression. Tear up that ANZAS nonsense. Militarily we should be concentring on self defence, not this stupid sabre-rattling towards the Chinese. As for these submarines, they are a joke! A very expensive joke.

I understand the Poms and the Germans are sending some old tubs of theirs our way to stir the pot with the Chinese as well. How about if the Chinese were to put a couple of their tubs in the English Channel.

Paul1405,

They don't have to, the Russians have already agreed to do that for them.