Dear old Ziggy Spinowski is back – spinning again

“it’s definitely a clean technology,” Ziggy Switkowski said.

“We could by the middle of the century have a substantial amount of our electricity generated by nuclear power.”

Fukushima has turned Australians off nukes, SMH, November 11, 2012 The Fukushima disaster has set back Australia’s willingness to embrace nuclear power, physicist Ziggy Switkowski says.

Dr Switkowski, who in 2006 chaired a commonwealth government inquiry that recommended Australia start using nuclear energy, said on Sunday that Australians were now less likely than they were then to accept nuclear energy due to problems at reactors. Referring to Japan’s March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, Dr Switkowski said the momentum in favour of nuclear power had been steadily building but had been set back several years……
The biggest hurdle to Australia using nuclear energy was political
consensus, but as soon as that was achieved it would not take long to
establish the industry, he said.

Dr Switkowski said while building the first substantial reactor would
take 10 to 15 years, any subsequent reactors could be built quite
quickly.

“If there was the political will, I think the economics are not an
issue, the technology is well within our ability to manage and it’s
definitely a clean technology,” he said.

“We could by the middle of the century have a substantial amount of our electricity generated by nuclear power.”
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/fukushima-has-turned-australians-off-nukes-20121111-2960s.html