Grim outlook for nuclear radiation disaster, less bad for Australia
Dr Caldicott said any fall-out was unlikely to affect Australia, though the death toll in the northern hemisphere could be severe.
“Australia is probably not going to be affected by fall-out because the northern and southern air masses don’t mix.”
Caldicott: Japan may spell end of nuclear industry worldwide | Independent Australia, 16 March 11, – ‘The situation is very grim and not just for the Japanese people’ One person who is in no doubt about the seriousness of the incident is prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, Dr Helen Caldicott. Independent Australia spoke exclusively to Dr Caldicott yesterday as she was in transit to Canada to speak at a hearing into a proposal to build four new power plants in Darlington, Ontario. The situation is very grim and not just for the Japanese people,” said Dr Caldicott. Continue reading
Australian Liquified Natural Gas likely to boom as effect of Japanese nuclear disaster
Nuclear Power Worries Boost Standing of Australian LNG – WSJ.com MARCH 16, 2011, By ROSS KELLY, SYDNEY—A global shift away from nuclear power in response to the atomic plant crisis unfolding in Japan will likely spur a scramble for Australian energy, catapulting the country ahead of Qatar as the world’s biggest supplier of liquefied natural gas in the near future. Continue reading
Barry Brook reassures Australians that the Fukushima nuclear plant is safe
The plant is safe now and will stay safe……If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets
Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a Simple and Accurate Explanation, Brave New Climate, Barry Brook, 13 March 2011, [Barry Brook quotes Josef Oehmen, a PhD Scientist, whose father has extensive experience in Germany’s nuclear industry.] Continue reading
Australia’s uranium industry dream bubble about to burst
AUST URANIUM STOCKS CONTINUE TO SLIDE, Business Spectator, 15 March 11, Reuters Shares in Australian uranium miners fell further as Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened and several countries said they would reconsider their position on nuclear power. Continue reading
Australian may be victim of Japan radiation poisoning
Aussie survivor fears radiation poisoning , THE AUSTRALIAN, Greg Stolz, March 15, 2011 THE agony continues for an Australian teacher who may have radiation poisoning from a Japanese nuclear plant explosion, despite her safe arrival back home yesterday.
Hospital tests performed on 27-year-old Emily Peck have not yet revealed whether she was exposed to the fallout from the Fukushima reactor. She may have to be referred to a nuclear radiation specialist in Brisbane…..http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aussie-survivor-fears-radiation-poisoning/story-fn84naht-1226021386547
Pro nuclear stand by Liberal MPs and Labor’s Paul Howes
Opposition Deputy Leader Julie Bishop and Shadow Energy and Resource Minister Ian Macfarlane both did their part to keep nuclear power on the agenda yesterday, with Bishop taking the strongest stance, that “nuclear power is the only low-emission technology currently capable of supplying the constant energy we need for large cities and industry”. ….AWU secretary Paul Howes is still agitating in that direction, saying this issue should still be weighed up “unemotionally”.
A vanishing vision of nuclear power,Business Spectator, Rob Burgess, 15 Mar 2011
On both sides of politics, those who envisage an Australian nuclear power industry are watching that ambition vanish into the distant future. Continue reading
Australian uranium companies optimistic about future
Paladin supplies uranium to American and Asian nuclear plants, and while it has several exploration projects in Australia and Canada, he said the Japanese incident was ”hardly likely” to affect the business.
”It’s not going to have much significance in the long term,” he said……. Mr Crabb said it was ”ghoulish” and ”inappropriate” for anti-nuclear campaigners to be using the Japanese incident for political purposes…baser instincts, such as fear, may have a larger bearing on the market
Reactor reaction wipes $1.5bn from uranium holdings Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Ker March 15, 2011
MORE than $1.5 billion was wiped off the value of uranium stocks yesterday as the market reacted savagely to the nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan.
As explosions rocked Japan’s ailing Fukushima nuclear plant, the market seemed convinced the incident would harm ambitions for uranium to play a bigger role in energy production around the world. Continue reading
Australia needs nuclear power, say Liberal’s MacFarlane and Labor’s Ferguson
…….. Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said last month nuclear power was “proven clean-energy technology” and the cost of generating electricity from it was getting cheaper……
Calls for ‘science-based’ nuclear debate , Brisbane Times, Daniel Hurst March 14, 2011 The federal Coalition’s energy spokesman has restated his support for nuclear power, despite the unfolding crisis in Japan.
Australian uranium shares dumped
Uranium stocks dumped after Japan crisis
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8223706
Uranium miners hit by nuclear crisis |http://www.smh.com.au/business/uranium-miners-hit-by-nuclear-crisis-20110314-1btv4.html
Ziggy spins: Japan accident will lead to safe nuclear reactors
EVEN IN EARTHQUAKE ZONES, NUCLEAR POWER IS STILL A SAFE OPTION – THE AUSTRALIAN, Ziggy Switkowski, 14 March 11, “…..If core cooling can be satisfactorily restored, then in the best case local residents could return to their homes in days.
Engineers have taken extraordinary steps to get coolant to the reactor of most concern, flooding the core with seawater…….. the combination of venting and seawater flushing should stabilise the situation in the days ahead….We will learn from the tragic Japanese experience how to build more robust reactors, how to ensure multiple layers of protection work properly, how to better contain radioactive gases.
Uranium deception and confusion of Northern Territory politician
“It details 4th generation reactors that essentially don’t require more uranium mining…in forwarding that article around he’s essentially shooting the argument in the foot because he’s advocating for uranium mining on one front when [4th generation reactors] use radioactive waste.”..
Conlan in hot seat – ABC Alice Springs – Australian Broadcasting Corporation11 March, 2011 By Emma Sleath Country Liberals politician Matt Conlan is in damage control following an NT News article alleging he was secretly in support of the proposed Angela Pamela uranium mine despite publicly opposing it. Continue reading
Angela Pamela uranium mine, and Northern Territory’s two- faced politician
Mr Conlan came out against the opening of the Pamela-Angela uranium mine in Central Australia a few days before the Araluen byelection in Alice Springs last year… [but he also devised] a “great way to outmuscle” mine opponents, such as the “comrades” from the Greens and Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Matt’s email con job, NT News NIGEL ADLAM | March 11th, 2011 A CLP politician who publicly opposed the opening of a uranium mine in the Territory privately agreed to help the mining company. Continue reading
Community opposition to Angela Pamela uranium mine, hypocrisy of politicians
The desperate tone of the emails simply proves the effectiveness of the concerted community opposition to the dirty, dangerous uranium mine at Angela Pamela…..The Arid Lands Environment Centre, the Environment Centre NT and Families for a Nuclear Free Future continue to call for the Angela Pamela site to be permanently protected from uranium mining by declaring the area reserved land under s112 of the Minerals Titles Act.
Conlan/Cameco collusion proves power of community opposition The Arid Lands Environment Centre is not surprised by the conspiratorial content of the leaked email’s between the CLP’s Matt Conlan and Cameco’s Stephan Stander. Continue reading
Young Australians rally for action on Climate Change, oldies rally against it
When you know that you will be directly affected by decisions made by those in power, you think about things in a new light. It’s an entirely different world-view to those who are only a decade or two away from leaving this world behind.
Climate Change has become a generational battle, Anti-Carbon Tax Rallies | AYCC Rallies, Sydney Morning Herald, Ellen Sandell, national director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, 11 March 11, The debate on pricing carbon has rapidly deteriorated in the past few weeks since Opposition Leader Tony Abbott predicted a “people’s revolt” over the issues. Now, it’s turning into a full-blown generational war. Continue reading
As Australians dither over carbon emissions, seas rise up to our cities
major cities – particularly Sydney – are shown to be under much more immediate threat from sea level rises than previously predicted.
Seas ‘will swamp Sydney yearly‘ | The Daily Telegraph, Simon Benson, 11 March 11, SYDNEY will suffer major sea level inundation events once a year instead of every 100 years, according to an alarming new report on climate change impacts from the Government’s chief adviser. Continue reading
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