The only areas they can place these reactors are along the Coast as they use massive amounts of water for cooling and regulating the core. Guess where most of the population lives? Do you want one in your back yard?
2007-09-17 18:10:17 · 8 answers · asked by Dick E knee 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
A Bush Family Member. You are wrong. We can't have Reactors in Australia. We are very short of water. You drink the stuff and smile.
2007-09-17 19:42:02 · update #1
Hey Cover Girl. Let us be Honest. You have done little or no research into the problems we will have later with the lethel effects of this garbage. Let us bury it under your house when you have children. Your mind will do a back flip then.
2007-09-17 21:00:55 · update #2
NO that is the reason i wont vote LIBERAL ANYMORE its far to dangerous for the people who come after us as well
2007-09-17 18:37:16 · answer #1 · answered by ausblue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We cannot go nuclear. It will be the absolute worst thing for Australia. Once this path is taken we will never be able to go back. Every other country in the world who operates nuclear power plants has problems with the waste and how to get rid of the stuff. The nuclear industry, like most big multi-national industries, is rotten to the core and if we start developing nuclear energy we will get caught up in it. There are so many reasons why we should and MUST not go nuclear. It is the absolutely wrong way to go. Australia could lead the world in developing and implementing sustainable energy sources. Wouldn't that be a better legacy to leave in the world? Rather than tagging along and selling out to a nuclear industry that is already yesterday's technology.
It is NOT SAFE! No matter how much they try to convince us we must never forget that! It is not environmentally friendly - despite their assertions that it will reduce global warming. The waste that this process produces can NEVER be disposed of and must be stored for millions of years. It is toxic and lethal. Why would any sane person want to begin something like this now? It just doesn't make sense.
2007-09-18 10:39:35 · answer #2 · answered by cutsie_dread 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we should make up an election banner for the Liberals
"Vote for us today to insure a nuclear future for your granchildren tomorrow"
Nuclear reactors are the last things that Australia needs and I can't work out is where is the uranium coming from.
It wont come from WA so the only the other place it can come from is NT where the army are now fixing the Aboriginal health problems by conveniently confiscating their land
Also if the waste is so safe why then does it have to buried right out in the middle whoop whoop away from everything.
I have an idea the people who agree with them and say they are safe well they can go and dig up the yellow cake, work in reactor's and then drive the truck to dispose of the waste.
I wonder who be the first to volunteer their backyard.
2007-09-18 02:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by molly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you imagine that woman as PM? She always appears to me like a more right wing version of Maggie Thatcher.
We should be exploring all other sources of energy before we think about nuclear and certainly questioning the science put out by the people who will make a killing out of it.
2007-09-18 19:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by Ted T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nuclear reactors are nothing to be afraid of.
Nuclear reactors releases less radiation than coal power plants.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
"Generally, the amount of thorium contained in coal is about 2.5 times greater than the amount of uranium."
"Worldwide release [from burning coal] (from combustion of 637,409 million tons):
Uranium: 828,632 tons (containing 5883 tons of uranium-235)
Thorium: 2,039,709 tons "
Less than 1% of our exposure to radiation is from nuclear power and fallout. http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
2007-09-18 01:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by a bush family member 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
notice how everyday in the paper nuclear power is more and more mentioned. its to get people to slowly accept it!
...yet again, why does history repeat itself?
2007-09-18 01:17:51 · answer #6 · answered by Eduardo C 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm happy to have one in my back yard. It's about time we went nuclear, and helped to reduce the global warming.
2007-09-18 03:27:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If ur brain was a nuke u would,t even ruffle the doona
2007-09-18 18:40:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋