A sceptical view of the South Australian hype about nuclear waste importing

A comment on today’s Advertiser article about PremierWeatherill’s jaunt to Finland

Sanity1 17 Sept 16 in France you will see that they are shutting down a third of their reactors by 2025 and not replacing them. They found them too expensive and dirty to keep running and are replacing them with renewables.

No one in the world has successfully run a long term high level nuclear waste storage facility. Visit Germany’s, where they are still trying to work out how to remove all their stored waste when it was overfilled because of greed, and is leaking into the watertable. Even the one at Onkalo, Finland hasn’t started burying waste and won’t until next decade. All this haste, to copy a system that hasn’t even stored waste for a single year!

I think that many have been caught up in a nuclear sales pitch that has promised big returns, on a scheme that no-one else in the world has dared. Not even countries with reactors, who would (you think) have the expertise, are considering this scheme. Why?http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/daniel-wills-final-decision-on-nuclear-waste-repository-in-south-australia-could-be-years-away/news-story/5f76e4057d80304c52cccf25d2f2a440

September 17, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News

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