Antinuclear

Nuclear’s disadvantages – greenhouse gases and costs

Michele Madigan, Advertiser, August 19, Re‘Nuclear Benefits’ (Advertiser 31/7/19), according to the 2006 Switkowski Report, nuclear power emits three times more greenhouse gases than wind power. In these drought years, Australians may prefer other uses for the 35 to 65 million litres per day that reactors typically consume. It’s a long wait – 15 years or more to develop nuclear power in Australia.

The nuclear power industry survives only because of huge taxpayer subsidies an estimated A$40 billion for Hinkley Point’s two reactors in the UK. Finally, the awkward matter of very possible accidents with Chernobyl and Fukushima being only more recent and catastrophic examples: modern technology notwithstanding. No surprise then that insurance companies do not insure against the risk of nuclear accidents. Given the inconvenient facts, nuclear power mightn’t seem such a good idea after all.

August 17, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming