The Nuclear Technology Mess – theme for July 2012
Take heart – all who seek clean energy – the nuclear industry is in a right mess!
Apart from the chaotic state of nuclear economics, and of security, weapons proliferation, public opposition, desperate marketing, frantic agonising over waste disposal , as well as the drive for public amnesia about Chernobyl and Fukushima – apart from all that – the nuclear lobby are all wrangling among themselves.
(The Spin graphic within picture is adapted from
http://spinoriginal.blogspot.)
com.au/ )
There’s an unseemly public frenzy from all the different reactor corporations to market their respective products. This includes marketing the existing old reactors – to continue running them for many decades, despite their deterioration,- because this is much more profitable than getting new ones. And – also – postpones for future generations the massive costs of dealing with the reactors’ radioactive corpses.
Then there’s the drive to sell little reactors, and Thorium reactors – an absolute nightmare of security concerns in these. And of course, the uranium industry won’t like this.
It’s quite likely that in trying to outdo each other, the nuclear industry will kill off itself faster than any anti nuclear campaigns. AREVA is already offering reactors for sale below their cost price.
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Nuclear and Uranium Spinbuster - theme for June 2013
The facts on the global nuclear industry are not hard to discover, if you delve. Nuclear power has some sort of tenuous future wherever the government funds it, and wherever the country has not had experience of it. Nuclear power is dying a tortuous death wherever it is supposed to be a private enterprise business, and in countries that have experienced it. World Nuclear Industry Status Report maps nuclear power’s global decline
And of course, with dying nuclear power plants, dies the market for uranium Yellowcake Fever: Exposing the Uranium Industry’s Economic Myths,
There’s always a little, subterranean, push going on in Australia . People like John White (Australia Nuclear Fuel Leasing) Ron Walker and Robert Champion de Crespigny, (Australian Nuclear Energy) with $billion signs in their eyes quietly beavering away for Australia to become the world’s nuclear waste dump. Which is one reason why they all love the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor
and of course – spin it to Australians as a medical necessity
The nuke lobby spins to kids
The nuke lobby spins to all Australians, but especially Aborigines.
In the meantime, while awaiting the full nuclear fuel cycle in Australia, the nuclear/uranium lobby spins new little nuclear reactors
And of course, in view of the desperate plight of Australia’s uranium industry – it spins uranium mining.
And of course – in the spinner’s lexicon, words are all-important – the more confusing, the better. The theme is to show how lovely nuclear power is, and to discredit renewable energy.
The U232, which will be a “contaminate” in any U233 bred from Thorium, is a strong gamma emitter. That precludes fabrication and assembly using a glove box with only light shielding, instead requiring remote manipulation.
That kicks the resources required up to government sponsored, terrorists in a cave aren’t going to be able to do this.