A wasteful and very dubious nuclear opinion survey

The news item below is a bit of a worry.

by Christina Macpherson 11 Sept 09 Now why would the govt want to waste our tax money on the nuclear  question, just 2 years after it was clearly answered by the voters?

Is the uranium/nuclear lobby is dictating government action here, in the same way that the fossil fuel industries are determining climate change policy?

Survey Project leader Daniela Stehlik may be very well intentioned, but her comments published today do not inspire confidence .

First of all, Stehlik is calling nuclear power the “more emissions-friendly option”. Doesn’t she know about the carbon emissions from the whole nuclear fuel cycle?

Then she says “… with nuclear, Australians can’t tell what it’s like … they haven’t actually seen a plant in operation  …. No direct experience” (So, apparently we can’t have a valid opinion?)

Amazingly, Stehlik thinks that internationally, nuclear power is OK with communities. Doesn’t she know about the turmoil in USA and UK over the nuclear’s costs, and wastes.? About the fiasco of France’s new reactors? About the massive anti-nuclear protest in Germany?

And – Stehlik seems to brush off the (?silly) negative connotations of nuclear bombs and nuclear accidents- “it’s in our imagination”!

Oh dear – we are in for a wasteful tax-funded nuke-hype!

September 11, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, spinbuster, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radioactive, uranium