Antinuclear

Nuclear lobby getting desperate? Flogging Small Modular Reactor Fantasy to Australia

To The Editor, The Advertiser, by Dennis Matthews, 19 April 14 Boy, do we have a deal for you! We have these super-dooper compact modular nuclear reactors (The Advertiser,19/4/14). We can’t say how many MW they would generate or how much they would cost, but the output will be less than 1/10^th of the smaller (oops bigger) reactors and the proposed costs can be a fraction, somewhere between ½ and whatever.

But wait, there’s more. The essence of the technology already exists in nuclear submarines, which find them useful because they are not as smelly as generators using fossil fuels. We will put yours underground thus making it less polluting for your neighbours, except of course if they malfunction, which happens very rarely. You may have trouble with insurance but rest assured your government, like the US government, will pick up the costs at no charge to you.

It will be at least six years before the first one is built so beat the rush and get your orders in now.

April 19, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News