Antinuclear

A Monty Python quality to Australia’s pro nuclear lobby

In the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, we see a sad little Knight, who wants to fight on, as one by one, his limbs are cut off by his enemy.

Australia’s nuclear lobby is getting to sound very like that knight.  Faced with current developments, do they stop to think?   Apparently not, as they continue to trot out their pronouncements on nuclear’s cost, efficiency,  solution to climate change, – and of course, on the (dismal) future for renewable energy

But today the uranium industry is going down the drain.  The USA is desperately devising new nuclear safety regulations – a process that might take not merely years, but decades.  Nuclear power is ending in Germany, stalled in many other countries. Even France is now having serious second thoughts on nuclear.

Nuclear plants are threatened, not only by earthquakes,  terrorism, human error, but also by climate change – extreme heat, sea level rise, – and now, even jellyfish!

As for Australia – the Gillard government’s new plan for carbon tax is a good start, well thought out, with appropriate compensation packages. It’s meeting with approval from many sections of the community. And enthusiasm for renewable energy investment is now growing in Australia, as well as overseas.

Monty Python’s knight kept on trying to fight, with not one limb left.  Is Australia’s nuclear lobby equally proud, to the point of stupidity?

I guess it takes a great man, like Sir Marcus Oliphant, to turn around and say “We wuz wrong about nuclear power”” – Christina Macpherson

July 11, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews