The global radioactive toilet – a plague species fouls its home
Time was when Europeans emptied their toilet pans out of windows, into the street.
Now we think that’s disgusting. But – now no problem with the oceans. We’ve been dumping sewage, plastics and all sorts of rubbish into the seas for decades.
Now – the ultimate insult to the oceans – it’s OK to dump radioactive water. This could be a precedent for future nuclear waste problems. I’m sure that the nuclear establishment will be happy with that – if we are.
Radioactive danger to Australia of Indonesian nuclear plants
impacts on northern Australia of even a small release could potentially be devastating to agricultural production and tourism.”
VIDEO Top End warning over nuclear reactor fallout | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au NT News | Darwin, 5 April 11, THE Top End is in danger of being devastated by a nuclear fallout cloud should Indonesian reactors melt down, computer modelling shows.The Australian National University’s Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies working paper shows there is “substantial risk” for the whole of northern Australia – particularly during the monsoon months. Continue reading
Radiation: “acceptable to society” is not the same as “safe”
We talked to scientists, and scientists agree – to use a highly scientific term, “safe levels” of radiation are bullshit. Radiation is unsafe at any level. “The general view,” explains Postol, “is that any exposure to radiation increases your risk of some kind of medical consequences.” Namely, cancer……
Supposedly “safe” or “normal” levels of radiation may be permissible to us or some authority, “but they are actually low cancer risk levels that assume that that level of cancer risk is acceptable to society,” explains Makhijani….o tiptoe around the truth, that more radiation equals more cancer, period, is cowardly and negligent – risk remains risky, however slight.
There’s No Such Thing As Safe Radiation | Gizmodo Australia, 5 April 11, “……Since Fukushima failed, the Japanese government and power plant reps have obscured the danger of the Fukushima crisis-and it is a crisis. The word “safe” has been tossed about loosely. Unfortunately, when it comes to radiation, there’s no such thing…..we shouldn’t be ignorant either. And, largely, we are.
Japanese authority figures have taken steps, whether deliberately or out of pure ineptitude, to whitewash the danger of the Fukushima’s radiation. Continue reading
No finance for impossibly costly nuclear power in Western Australia
why is it that no investor wants to put their own money into building a nuclear power station in Western Australia?….It’s not the environmental movement that is preventing nuclear power becoming available in Western Australia, it is merchant bankers!
The myth of Nuclear Energy for WA, Wangle April 4th, 2011 By Bill Johnston MLA The current situation in Japan has given pause to the calls from some people that nuclear energy will fix Western Australia’s energy problems. However, it will not be long before we see those comments beginning again.
This is accompanied by the implication that it is somehow the environmental movement that is holding back this nuclear energy nirvana. Continue reading
Why nuclear energy will not go ahead
while nuclear power does return net energy and while it may be true that public opposition to nuclear power will fall, it probably won’t matter – because no society in an energy decline, with declining fossil fuel resources, can afford to front-load a decade or two decades of energy in fossil fuels into a plant.
Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power : Science Blogs, Casaubon’s Book, April 1, 2011, by Sharon Astyk“………More than any other kind of energy generation, nuclear frontloads its energy costs dramatically – reliable estimates vary from as low as 12 years before they produce more energy than went into building them to as high as 20. The upfront plant building costs are also vastly higher than for coal, natural gas or any other source. Continue reading
How Australia’s carbon tax could be used for the public good
Let’s give the money into the greening of the economy, the jobs creation, which in Germany they had legislation like this because of the Greens a decade ago and they’ve created 350,000 jobs….put it into local business, put it into the renewable energy business – that includes in rural and regional Australia, create the jobs in this country and keep the profits in this country. And at the same time clean up our economy. Now – so it can compete with the rest of the world
Bob Brown joins Lateline, ABC, Ali Moore, 04/04/2011..……..the Greens’ position is that the compensation should go to householders, not to the polluters as Tony Abbott would do. And let me just make this important observation here: his policy would rip $10 billion out of the taxpayers’ money pool and give it across to the big polluters for a voluntary scheme. You know, it’s not going to work. Continue reading
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