Aussie gov renewed interest in nuclear power.

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(Be back later when I have time to read the article.)

Blimey mark

The debate on the forum (Link at page bottom) is tidy and appears knowlegable.

(Taking a break from an extremely convoluted job application here, dadpad, so excuse me in advance if I sound a bit wooly in my response. A bit light headed right now, I'm afraid.)

Hmmm, I was wondering why JH suddenly was talking uranium, uranium, uranium in Washington on that visit. It just seemed to come from nowhere & suddenly he was a man with a mission!

Needless to say, I'm not at all impressed if he set up that "independent" inquiry (which would come to the "right" conclusions about uranium as such a wonderful, clean source of energy for the future) after having done deals through his US contacts already! If Julie Macken is right about Bush & other US business connections & their plans, it just makes me despair about our prime minister. Honestly!

This bit (amongst other aspects of the scenario Macken presents) scares the living daylights out of me!:

...... When the rods have been spent, they will be left to cool briefly for a year or two before shipping them back to Darwin by sea while they're still ?'hot' ?- apparently shipping the rods while they are still radioactive reduces the chances of the material falling into unfriendly hands. They will put them on the Darwin to Adelaide railway line and transport the rods back to South Australia. Once there, the rods can stay in cooling ponds for another 30 years, before being stored forever in the Australian outback. ........

Transporting radioactive waste back to Oz across land & sea!
As long as we keep selling the stuff we'll have to keep taking back the waste! An endless supply of the stuff.
Where, exactly, in the Australian outback will the final resting place of this waste be?
What are they thinking apart from huge amounts of bucks in their own pockets?

Oh my god, I wish I hadn't read this tonight. It makes me feel quite ill.
That man!

Think about it folks, what else have we got?

Our wool industry has priced itself out of existence, our fruit industry destroyed, our wheat industry - well, nuff said - in fact our rural industries as a whole are now at rock bottom. Ship-building, gone, other industries - going, going, .... Face up to it, kids, uranium's the way to go.

In the short term it's only the Northern Territory and South Australia at risk, and they don't really matter, do they? And no one really lives in the Dead Centre, do they? And later on, when we've built up a decent stockpile of nuclear waste, we will truly be a glowing tribute to man's initiative.

Don't know why you're getting so excited about it all, really I don't!