Nuclear business lobby geared up to make submissions to the South Australian Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission
Mr Hundertmark said it was not simple to “overcome the anti-nuclear feeling” but that modern nuclear technology was far safer than older reactors, such as Fukushima in Japan
Kevin Scarce, who is in favour of a debate on nuclear and is heading up the Royal Commission, has said he was sick of hearing politicians say they’re not opposed to nuclear power then doing nothing about it.
The $20bn blueprint to create a nuclear industry in SA TORY SHEPHERD POLITICAL EDITOR THE ADVERTISER FEBRUARY 22, 2015 A $20 BILLION blueprint to create a South Australian nuclear industry that turns around the state’s fortunes by employing tens of thousands of people has been developed by a panel of experts.
The draft plan says the project would make the state a “world centre” for nuclear energy by offering storage for radioactive waste, enriching our uranium and building nuclear reactors, creating a new industry.
SA Nuclear Energy Systems Pty Ltd, chaired by Bruce Hundertmark, comprises a range of nuclear experts and hopes to work with the US Department of Energy and other major international entities in 
its quest to make the plan a reality.
The group, which has an office in Wayville, hopes to make a submission to the Royal Commission into a nuclear industry.
Mr Hundertmark, a businessman, consultant, and developer of high technology companies who worked as an engineer in the nuclear industry, said manufacturing in SA is collapsing and the economy is in strife, so a major new industry was needed…..
Decades ago, Mr Hundertmark was a director of News International, the UK arm of News Corporation, The Advertiser’s parent company.
Other board members include top climate scientist Tom Wigley from the University of Adelaide, who says that opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change; Richard Cherry, a former executive officer of the US nuclear industry and consultant to the industry; Eric Dunlop who is on Barack Obama’s committee for biofuels; Ian Kowalick, former head the Department of Premier and Cabinet, and Stephen Lincoln, a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Adelaide.
Under their proposal:
A RADIOACTIVE waste storage facility at Maralinga would cost about $3 billion and would bring in more than $1 billion a year and provide 4000 jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs. The Federal Government is currently looking for a place to store waste.
A PROCESSING plant to enrich uranium mined in SA would be set up on industrial land at Whyalla at a cost of about $7 billion.
SMALL modular reactors to be set up on the Eyre Peninsula would cost about $6 billion and bring in billions through generating electricity.
Other investments in infrastructure would add to the cost…….
Mr Hundertmark said it was not simple to “overcome the anti-nuclear feeling” but that modern nuclear technology was far safer than older reactors, such as Fukushima in Japan, which melted down after being hit by a tsunami wave…….
Kevin Scarce, who is in favour of a debate on nuclear and is heading up the Royal Commission, has said he was sick of hearing politicians say they’re not opposed to nuclear power then doing nothing about it.
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and Prime Minister Tony Abbott have sparked discussions recently by saying it is a discussion worth having…….http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/the-20bn-blueprint-to-create-a-nuclear-industry-in-sa/story-fni6uo1m-1227234681743
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