Antinuclear

Adelaide Advertiser’s misleading hype about the nuclear industry

Dennis Matthews, 24 Dec 15 Optimism about the growth of the nuclear plant industry (The Advertiser, 22/12/15) is in stark contrast to the facts. Such professed optimism is a characteristic of an increasingly desperate nuclear industry.

Even before the disastrous meltdowns in Fukushima, the industry was in decline. This decline was accelerated by Fukushima and by the accelerated growth of the renewable energy industry.

Frequent attempts over several decades by the nuclear industry to bolster its fortunes by claims to be an environmentally sustainable solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions have deservedly failed.

The nuclear energy industry was the product of the nuclear weapons industry, a continuing connection which nuclear advocates still fail to acknowledge. To try to revive it via nuclear submarines is a strategy that deserves to be rejected.

Given the facts, it would be a rash government that commits public funds to an industry that is showing all the signs of a slow and painful demise.

A smart, 21st century government would exploit the increasing trend to alternatives to fossil and nuclear power.

December 23, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News