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Responses to “Australia’s MUMS FOR NUCLEAR – propaganda wheels within wheels”

Terry Mills says: 31 Mar 25

Heather thank you for your contribution.

In Australia we want answers on several fundamental points ranging from where waste will be dumped/stored ?

Is the exemplar for the SMR the Westinghouse model or if not is it a Chinese or Russian alternative (very important)?

What is the delivery/installation/commissioning time frame from time an order is placed ?

What is the fixed cost for acquisition/assembly/installation/commissioning (within ten percent)?

What is the energy output of the small modular reactor (SMR) under consideration : i.e. how many conventional dwellings would be fully serviced and what could an average householder (four persons) expect to pay for that energy over a 12 month period ?

Answers to some of these fundamental questions would certainly assist us in Australia as our politicians have been less than forthcoming.

ThankYou

Bert Hetebry says: 31 Mar 25

Heather, the only question I have is WHY?

Why when we have an abundance of solar power
Why when we have an abundance of wind power
Why when we have battery technology to store energy when wind and sun are not providing that power

Why when nuclear is so hellishly expensive to build
Why when nuclear is not just expensive to build but seems to be too difficult to build in a timely manner
Why when the waste produced becomes a time bomb for future environmental problems.

So yes, Heather, Why?

Roswell says:

Thank you for your comment, Heather. Much appreciated.

Terry speaks for the most of us: we do have questions.

Bert Hetebry says:

Our contributor Roswell has a wonderfully understated sense of humour, an Australian sense of humour which at times is layered with soft, gentle sarcasm.

As he so clearly points out, the mums and mothers he cites have a vested interest in promoting nuclear power.

Kathryn says:

I wonder if these foolish pro-nuclear women and the RWNJs (like that short-sighted political psychopath, Peter Dutton) have STOPPED and given any thought about what the hell our government is going to do with the MASSIVE amount of NUCLEAR WASTE nuclear energy inevitably produces?

Do they realise that nuclear waste is, in fact, RADIOACTIVE for THOUSANDS OF YEARS posing a REAL, perpetual danger and deadly health risk for future GENERATIONS of future Australians? Have they STOPPED – even for a minute – to consider WHERE an inhumane, racist and self-serving LNP regime are likely to DUMP not only the nuclear waste of Australian-generated nuclear power but, likely, to import nuclear waste from other nations (such as America, the UK and/or other European nations) in order to make a “fast buck” at OUR expense?

No doubt, the likes of Dutton et al will consider it quite OK to dump toxic waste in what THEY consider to be “remote” areas of the outback trying to convince themselves (and anyone who will listen) that “nobody lives there” when, in fact, such areas are inhabited by communities of vulnerable indigenous aboriginals and remote farming communities!

Nuclear  power = RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTE and, as such, will NEVER be a safe, acceptable alternative for our children, our grandchildren and our descendants! Australians live in the SUNNIEST continent on the planet. As such, the intensive further research and refinement of SOLAR POWER is the SENSIBLE choice because it can be accessed so easily, is inexpensive to process and, by far, the best, safest and cleanest form of energy available!

Canguro says: 30 Mar 2025

Unlikely to find any MUMS FOR NUCLEAR in Japan, in particular around such districts as Fukushima, Nagasaki, or Hiroshima, along with the Ukrainian mothers in proximity to Chernobyl, or moms close to the Three Mile Island in the USA, or indeed many other moms in the target areas of radiation fallout from a raft of similar incidents of varying severity and the associated human toll.

As Noel Wauchope’s essay implies, selling the sizzle is as equally important as the charred sausage; ironic doesn’t even begin to cover the potential horrors of human endeavour gone awry, as is so often the case and in particular in this instance of the allure of nuclear-fission based energy sources; tens of thousands of highly trained and knowledgeable engineers & technicians and still, things can and do go disastrously wrong.

Much to the distress of early implementers, Oppenheimer & Einstein for example, the lament was that the nuclear genie has well and truly been released and now mankind must find a way to manage this monstrous entity. The attraction persists, and the list of commercial nuclear reactors is extensive across many countries.

I guess the MUMS FOR NUCLEAR are acting out of self-interest as opposed to a detached rational assessment of the pros & cons of nuclear-derived energy for the general benefit of the wider population, given the range of non-potentially lethal options within the renewables sector. Do they hold hen’s parties, where they sit around fondling lumps of uranium or radium… lights out and enjoy the glow?

April 4, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster