My personal take on nuclear power is that it's a viable option, provided that 1)the costs of setting the bloody thing up in the first place are more than outweighed by the energy gains (which I think is what your commenter above is also thinking, and from listening to various experts debate the subject, seems unclear); 2)safety and maintenance are seriously stringent, and 3) we work out what to do with the waste.
My opinion on 3 is that we shoot the stuff into the sun, and Australia develops its space industry for exactly that purpose. We make money disposing of other people's nuclear waste, and possibly even wind up with enough money to explore other alternatives ourselves. There's the odd issue about risk, and what the Australian people (and the rest of the world) would consider an acceptable risk profile for such an option, but I think the idea is worth exploring myself.
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Date: 2006-05-22 07:41 pm (UTC)Evidently.
BTW, thought you might find the following ...something... I was going to say amusing, but that's not quite the right word for it somehow.
Nuclear debate a farce: Garrett
My personal take on nuclear power is that it's a viable option, provided that 1)the costs of setting the bloody thing up in the first place are more than outweighed by the energy gains (which I think is what your commenter above is also thinking, and from listening to various experts debate the subject, seems unclear); 2)safety and maintenance are seriously stringent, and 3) we work out what to do with the waste.
My opinion on 3 is that we shoot the stuff into the sun, and Australia develops its space industry for exactly that purpose. We make money disposing of other people's nuclear waste, and possibly even wind up with enough money to explore other alternatives ourselves. There's the odd issue about risk, and what the Australian people (and the rest of the world) would consider an acceptable risk profile for such an option, but I think the idea is worth exploring myself.