Antinuclear

How Australia is being conned by the nuclear industry

Christina Macpherson 26 March 14, When are we going to wake up to the pro nuclear propaganda insidiously pervading our media and government?

THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper’s headline “Australia can take lead role to brighter safer nuclear future” (24/3/14) I was spared the details, as I do not pay up to read this nuclear/fossil fuel industry’s advertising  brochure.

Bodies with vested, and not so vested interests are pushing away -especially with submissions for the Energy White Paper to come out in a few months.

The mainstream media would have us to believe that there’s a mad global rush for nuclear power, and that  it’s not only our ethical duty to import the world’s radioactive trash, – but also –  Oh My God – if we don’t import the world’s trash – why we might impede the global development of this wonderful nuclear industry!

Deloitte Access Economics analyst Chris Richardson   says in today’s Financial Review “A focus on selling nuclear waste “storage” to global customers would  remove one of the biggest barriers to nuclear power around the world.”  

Bewdy, sez I – Let’s keep that barrier up.

But more amusing to me is the constant propaganda for thorium nuclear reactors. Apart from ads “Thorium Replaces Uranium” – there are pro thorium tweeters saying “Thorium means the death of uranium”

Now how does that affect Australia’s much vaunted uranium industry? Oblivious to this Thorium push – we get headlines like this today from the Whyalla newspaper – ‘Uranium SA confident of future’

I have yet to see mainstream media in Australia cover things like:

• USA’s radioactive trash crisis
• UK’s nuclear costs crisis
• And – well,it’s bad taste to mention this now – Japan’s Fukushima crisis

March 25, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews