The greedy people who want to make money out of importing radioactive trash
These are some of the people behind the push that got South Australia’s Premier Jay Weatherill to change his tune and open the door to the toxic nuclear chain in Australia. Note that I write “chain” – not “cycle”
Directors at SA Nuclear Energy Systems Pty Ltd – the list includes former Labor federal MP Bob Catley, Ian Kowalick, a former head of the Department of Premier and Cabinet during John Olsen’s Liberal Government and later an information technology consultant to the Rann Labor Government, and climate scientists Professor Stephen Lincoln and Professor Tom Wigley
The nuke lobby would have us believe in a cycle, whereby suddenly, by magic – radioactive trash is no long trash. It becomes a “valuable resource” – recycled into gee-whiz new (exiting only in blueprint) innocuous little nuclear reactors.
Apart from all the disecoomics, and health and environment aspects – the promised new reactors themselves create highly toxic radioactive wastes, and eventually themselves become highly toxic radioactive corpses.
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As far as I know, Steve Lincoln is not a climate scientist but a former pro-nuclear Adelaide Uni academic whose specialty is inorganic chemistry. He has written some very ill-informed material in the past about energy, electricity in particular.
ABC shock-jocks Mat and Dave have been big fans of his, but inadvertently in their ecstatic interview with him gave airtime to a caller who started off by praising Lincoln and then sent him up before Mat & Dave had time to cut her off.
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How nice to know that there is someone in S.A. who was aware enough and smart enough to get an intelligent view across – however briefly
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Hi Christina
sorry about double entry, 2nd is correct spelling. I have a file containing pro-nukes in the SA media over the last 15 years. Will send if interested.
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Yes, thank you
I would be interested.
I’d like to find out and ‘out’ as many of these greedy suckers as I can.
It is becoming pretty clear to me that US military and business interests have been grooming suckers in South Australia for decades. A slow build-up to the aim of Australia having the entire nuclear chain (around our necks) in South Australia, and becoming the global hub of importing radioactive wastes, as well as very significant US military operations.
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This is an example of “climate experts” like Steve Lincoln.
24th July 2006
The Editor
The Advertiser
Dear Editor
If the public forum “Science outside the square: Radical solutions to climate change” is anything to go by Adelaide’s universities are in big trouble.
Not only were the Adelaide academics unable to think outside the square, sticking almost entirely to their specialised areas, but when they did go outside their area of expertise they made horrific blunders.
We had engineers, and scientists who appeared not to know the difference between uranium ore and high level nuclear waste, who appeared to think that wind farms could not make any contribution to base load electricity and who thought that photovoltaic solar cells could not generate any more energy than was used to make them.
At the moment SA gets about 8% of its base load electricity from wind farms. Based on new wind farms already announced, by 2010 this figure will rise to above 10%. If pollution costs were incorporated into the pricing of electricity than wind farms would be even more favourable.
Dennis Matthews
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Some more Adelaide Uni nonsense.
20th July 2006
The Editor
It seems that nuclear advocate Professor Stephen Lincoln will use any excuse to push his cause (The Advertiser, 20/7/06).
Recent blackouts in Adelaide are not the result of insufficient generating capacity but of insufficient transmission and distribution capacity.
The answer to these problems is not more generating capacity or even more transmission and distribution capacity, both of which are supply side solutions to the supply and demand equation.
The quickest, cheapest and most environmentally friendly solution is to reduce the demand by not wasting energy. Heating and air conditioning buildings whose doors are wide open to the street is a very wasteful way to use electricity.
Professor Lincoln’s approach will lead to spiralling electricity demand, a situation that would suit the nuclear lobby very well.
Dennis Matthews
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Hereâs the SA pro-nuke file
Dennis Matthews
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Thank you Christina and Dennis. And are these nuclear boosting academics, whose salaries are paid from the public purse, disclosing a conflict of interest? I think not.
Excellent sleuthing – well done to both of you.
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