Yesterday I Wrote Too Soon About Australia and Nuclear Power
Yesterday I wrote that ” the nuclear push goes on in media silence.” How wrong I was!
Today we have two worrying developments.
1, In the beautiful State of South Australia, we have a greedy and ignorant push 
ready to poison the land with the full development of the nuclear fuel cycle, aligned with USA nuclear military development.
2. Paul Howes, union heavy, comes out in support of Tony Abbott! It’s all about workers conditions etc. But let’s not forget. Along those other career minded people – Aboriginal Warren Mundine, and soon to be Governor General, Peter Cosgrove – Paul Howes is right behind the nuclear lobby’s push into Australia.
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Antinuclear 
Adelaide Citizens Demand Business SA Cease Fraud
A group of concerned citizens today issued a firm rejection of industry lobby group Business SA’s recent “demands (for) a nuclear industry in South Australia”.
The group’s spokes-person, mathematician Brett Stokes, has personally demanded that Business SA and AdelaideNow cease Nuclear Advocacy Fraud.
Stokes says “the economics are bogus – the ludicrous totally false claim of abundant cheap energy deserves condemnation as a malevolent fraud”.
Stokes cites the huge costs of construction and operational failures such as Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Stokes also notes that nuclear power reactors require huge amounts of cooling water and only operate 90% of the time at best.
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Today I sent the following letter to The Advertiser.
The Editor
The Advertiser
Business SA’s grubby disregard of the bleedingly obvious health and safety problems of the nuclear industry (The Advertiser, 6/2/14) may the only way to save the ALP from almost certain defeat in five weeks time.
It remains to be seen whether the not-so-dynamic duopoly will once again deprive the voters of a voice.
Dennis Matthews
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The Editor
The Advertiser
Now that neither of the major political parties supports Business SA’s demand for a nuclear fuel and waste industry for SA (The Advertiser, 6/2/14) – one party calls it a “dangerous distraction”, the other “a long way off” (The Advertiser, 7/2/14) – then Business SA should put its money where its mouth is and publish the names of the companies it claims support its demand.
That way SA consumers can vote with their feet and perhaps Business SA might then be a little less outrageous in its political demands.
Dennis Matthews
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