Comment Re:Women And Warheads (Score 3, Informative) 346
...what these Austrians...
There were Austrians in Australia working on enrichment? This is a very big deal politically here atm (in Australia that is you 'merican speed reader :)
Australia is a nuclear free country (except for the Lucas heights reactor in Sydney, we make isotopes for medical research only). We flirted with it in the 50's, but we have, until recently been a country who feels we can sell uranium (we have a lot btw - like a whole lot) overseas, pretty much raw, and use almost none of it for our own purposes.
Our Prime Minister has decided to ignite a nuclear debate. It will distract us from the real debate we should be having (about the new IR laws), and will to be fair, is probably better in the short term then carbon sequestration.
A report was also delivered to the cabinet today, explaining that we (the tax payer) would pay a lot of money on insurance if we build the world's 5th Westinghouse AP1000 reactor in 10 years, or wait 10 years, and build the worlds 10th Westinghouse AP1000, and save a lot of cash. Howards other idea is to enrich the unranium, give it to countries on condition that they use it peacefully, and return it to us for storage and for us to store it safely, at their expense of course.
As I said - lots of news down here, however, even the experts think right now it is probably too expensive, and the problem of which state will have the reactor, do the enrichment, or store the waste will make every body in our wide brown land bicker and argue for quite a while. This press release is probably part of the spin to deflect debate on our new IR (industrial relations) laws.
There were Austrians in Australia working on enrichment? This is a very big deal politically here atm (in Australia that is you 'merican speed reader
Australia is a nuclear free country (except for the Lucas heights reactor in Sydney, we make isotopes for medical research only). We flirted with it in the 50's, but we have, until recently been a country who feels we can sell uranium (we have a lot btw - like a whole lot) overseas, pretty much raw, and use almost none of it for our own purposes.
Our Prime Minister has decided to ignite a nuclear debate. It will distract us from the real debate we should be having (about the new IR laws), and will to be fair, is probably better in the short term then carbon sequestration.
A report was also delivered to the cabinet today, explaining that we (the tax payer) would pay a lot of money on insurance if we build the world's 5th Westinghouse AP1000 reactor in 10 years, or wait 10 years, and build the worlds 10th Westinghouse AP1000, and save a lot of cash. Howards other idea is to enrich the unranium, give it to countries on condition that they use it peacefully, and return it to us for storage and for us to store it safely, at their expense of course.
As I said - lots of news down here, however, even the experts think right now it is probably too expensive, and the problem of which state will have the reactor, do the enrichment, or store the waste will make every body in our wide brown land bicker and argue for quite a while. This press release is probably part of the spin to deflect debate on our new IR (industrial relations) laws.
