Antinuclear

It’s a dodgy time to be advocating new nuclear power

The Australian Liberal Party is soon to ‘discover” that human induced climate change is real.  Well they have to, as the push for nuclear power in Australia heats up, and the Liberals will eventually have to come up with  a reason for backing nuclear power, (other than just being sycophantic stooges for USA military industrial complex)

But I was quite surprised to find A new South Wales Liberal MP coming out with this position quite so early, as Jonathon O’Dea has.

Really – Australian Liberals should be a bit more careful about this.   The official Liberal line is that we really do nothing much about climate change, because, well, it’s not a big deal at all, and certainly nothing to do with Australia’s weather extremes and bushfires.   Mr Abbott and Mr Hunt have made this clear.

And secondly –  it’s just not  a great time to be advocating new nuclear power. Theoretically, Japan might be starting the most perilous exercise at Fukushima as soon as Friday 8th November.  A nuclear fuel rods’ cooling pool sits precariously atop the damaged nuclear reactor No 4, with the building unsteadily sinking gradually into the ground. There have been 2 earthquakes in the neighbourhood only very recently. So those fuel rods gotta be removed ASAP, in an operation of unprecedented risk. One slip and the whole of Tokyo would need to be evacuated. It’s a dodgy time to be advocating nuclear power!

November 5, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews