Antinuclear

Australia’s inconvenient flooding puts damper on nuclear power plans

Ziggy Switkowski, Martin Ferguson and the whole sorry band of Australia’s nuclear salesmen must be cringing at today’s article by  Josh Frydenberg  (Liberal Party federal member for Kooyong, Victoria.)

What bad timing! Apart from the fact that the article ignores the USA’s and UK’s nuclear waste crises, the German anti-nuclear mass movement, and the French commercial catastrophe of its new unfinished nuclear reactors, the article’s timing  is just rotten luck for the nuclear power case in Australia. They’d be wiser to lie low for some time.

How would nuclear power plants, dotted along Australia’s East coast, (as planned) go in a flood period.  What about those “cooling ponds” sitting there with radioactive used nuclear fuel rods?   Are we sure they wouldn’t get mixed up in the flood waters? Christina Macpherson

(I sent a comment to THE AUSTRALIAN along these lines.  Dunno if they’re going to print it.)

January 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews