South Australian Business and Premier want to import radioactive waste
Business groups embrace nuclear industry debate in South Australia ABC News 9 Feb 2015,The prospect of a nuclear industry in South Australia has been embraced by the state’s peak business group as a multi-million-dollar industry. Business SA chief executive Nigel McBride said it would be good for the state and could result in reduced carbon emissions.
“We’re talking about a massive, potential nuclear recycling industry,” he said.
“We’re talking about low energy costs and a huge rise in job opportunities through cheaper manufacturing, cheaper water.” SA Chamber of Mines and Energy chief executive Jason Kuchel said it was “about time” options for the future were discussed.
“One of those things that we would be hopeful for is that we might able to consider enriching uranium in South Australia,” he said.
Mr Weatherill …. indicated that he did not think the establishment of a SA nuclear power plant was on the horizon but said a nuclear waste dump and the creation of a nuclear enrichment industry should be considered……
But the Conservation Council’s chief executive Craig Wilkins described any use of nuclear energy in SA as “unwanted” and “unsafe”.
“It’s old thinking, rather than new thinking and it’s so frustrating to spend time, energy and resources investigating this when we are on the cusp of an energy revolution in renewable,” he said….http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-09/business-lobby-embraces-nuclear-debate/6079348
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10th February 2015
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The intellectual and ethical poverty of the pro-nuclear lobby is clearly demonstrated by its pathetic attempt to justify increasing SA’s role in the nuclear industry (The Advertiser, 10/2/15).
Less than a quarter of the pro-nuclear advocate’s article is devoted to arguments in favour of the nuclear industry and even those are decades-old myths that have failed the test of time. Rather than relying on facts, it would appear that the nuclear industry would rather resort to outrageous hypotheticals.
The pro-nuclear writer’s fawning endorsement of a Premier who was too gutless to announce his intentions before the Fisher by-election is surpassed only by his hypocritical call to cast aside “our own pre-conceived ideas and beliefs”.
Dennis Matthews
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According to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia only produces about 45 cubic metres of radioactive nuclear waste a year (The Advertiser, 10/2/15) . That’s a 3.5 by 3.5 by 3.5metre cube.
Given that this waste is stored in about 100 sites, then you would might wonder what all the fuss is about.
Unfortunately ANSTO has conveniently ignored not only the megatonnes of nuclear waste being generated at Roxby and other uranium mines but it even ignores ANSTO’S waste which will shortly be returning from having been processed in France (The Advertiser, 10/2/15) – yes, even the French are not keen to have our nuclear waste.
ANSTO’s highly radioactive nuclear waste could easily end up in South Australia (The Advertiser, 10/2/15), compliments of Jay Weatherill. Thanks a lot Jay, no wonder you didn’t want the public to know about this until after the Fisher by-election.
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