Could nuclear power lower energy prices?

With Australian power prices reaching numbers rivalled by only a few other countries in the world, is it finally time to re-consider nuclear power?

Australia has an abundance of Uranium in its backyard, and there is little doubt that the country needs to reduce the reliance on Coal, so where to from here?

The segment featured last night on 60 Minutes did little to present a strong case for or against nuclear power in my eyes, all it did was muddy the waters.

Our country is in a unique situation on nuclear unlike other developed nations, with the ability to position stations away from developed communities, while still being close enough to provide a significant load.

The Fukushima triple meltdown in Japan is a display of the worst that can happen with nuclear power, but if placed in areas less prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, such as South Australia, the risk are severely minimised.

What do you think? Should Australia consider nuclear power a viable source for the future?

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If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can. - Stewart Brand

Absolutely rubbish!!! He must have been paid by the nuclear industry to say that, read these two articles:

https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-waste/safer-storage-of-spent-fuel#.XEPlJdIzaUk

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/

Well that statement has been proved wrong when you see the truckloads and trainloads of nuclear waste being taken to dump

An important read in response to the above Stewart Brand flash card.

https://grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusium-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic

And here is an infograph too big to post:

https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/making-nuclear-power-safer/handling-nuclear-waste/infographic-dry-cask-cooling-pool-nuclear-waste.html#.XEPly9IzaUk

Scary Toot. The ramifications of poor management are horrifying for those affected.

Yes very frightening and that will happen here as well -- already so many places are STILL not safe after the tests done

 

Anyone that thinks it is safe is c crazy

Drew makes the qualifiers that South Australia is less prone to earthquakes thus risks severely minimised. Hardly a logical answer to the risks of spent rods.  Also radiation spreads.

Furthermore, Wikipedia's article "1954 Adelaide Earthquake" states that SA is the second most earth-quake prone of the Australian states.

Latest earthquakes in and around Australia interactive map and list   www.volcanodiscovery.com - Australia

provides the following two records:

Earthquake list and interactive map: Australia

Earthquake list: past 30 days (115 quakes)            in Australia.

(This record was last updated Monday, 21 2019 at 16:30 UTC (GMT)

IT is just not down to earthquakes -- radiation gets into the water table so then gets into food grown and also gets carried via the wind/rain/snow/atmosphere etc

It also gets into us Plan B when we have Xrays etc. Should be very wary of too many of these. 

Seemingly it accumilates and so we need to be conscious of how many X rays we have - dentists are good at doing too many of these IMHO> 

Plus my GP - funny thing is he has given me forms to go get Nuclear something done but I never did go and he never did notice or ask why not! Just word gives me the creeps.

Of course also told it is all around us in the ground - rocks etc - and living in the hills more ground radiation. 

Scary eh. I noticed visiting in the hills in WA - huge spiders - once went to knock on a door and found myself loolking at this Huntsman spider that was I swear the size of a dinner plate. 

You've likely never seen a woman run so fast as that day I can tell you ha ha. 

PlanB,

Thank you for reminding us about the water-table.

I had not even considered this.

You are frighteningly correct.

 

We have pesticides and other chemicals poisoning our water tables and rivers etc all the time, they are just as dangerous, see this website, I was shocked to discover this recently and it includes nuclear. It is also showing events going back to the 1950's with some contaminations still ongoing, we certainly don't need to add to this problem: 

https://pesticides.australianmap.net/

Yes Irish lassie,   any x-rays/ CT scans/CAT scans/PET scans/Fluoroscopy/Mammograms/Bone density scans/

MRI does not use radiation that uses very strong Magnetism but you can not have metal in your body -- although Tungsten seems to be fine

Yes, Twila, it is frightening just how much radiation is in the drinking water table even here in Aussie -- and also don't forget the amount of radiation released from Nuclear ships etc that will be in our oceans, of which is treated for showers etc on cruise ships and of course navy vessels

Have a look here at this map for the drinking water -- you can enlarge --and get more detail

https://water.australianmap.net/category/radioactive/

Yes musicveg,  pesticides are another BIG worry 

Also in all let us not forget that we are the top of the food chain so we get more than any.

 


 

.......After an unsuccessful tilt at Labor preselection, he flirted with running for the Senate on the Liberal Democrats' NSW ticket.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Labor frontbenchers were quick to criticise Mr Mundine, noting his advocacy for nuclear power in Australia.

"He was unsuccessful in the Labor Party. It's a free country. You can run for whatever party will have you," Mr Shorten said........

 https://www.afr.com/news/politics/former-alp-boss-to-run-as-a-liberal-20190122-h1ac1s


It sure does make you wonder just how much these idiots really know about anything when there is so much out there about Nuclear and the dangers of that are forever!

Plus the cost and short life time-- even if they were safe

Here is the other map that shows ALL contaminates as well as Uranium

https://water.australianmap.net/

And they say our drinking water is safe to drink? It is a must to have a good quality water filter these days.

 

I am sure that there is NO way to get Radiation out of things at all musicveg -- I guess you could use reverse osmosis -- but it would soon contaminate that system and have to be replaced and they are not cheap either and rather large.

I was talking about the other chemicals, we can reduce the amount of chemicals from out water with good filtering.

Yes Musicveg -- very true -- I have a filter but not the reverse osmosis one but a couple of my young friends do have it with their 2 small kids

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