Thread: Nuclear power plants

Originally Posted by Tombie

Put it at Pt Augusta where the old (idling) power stations are.

Rail direct from the Ore body, cooling water...

And that's "in my back yard" (sub 75km)

would be a good place for it

Originally Posted by Eevo

would be a good place for it

But were you will dispose the waste, in Gilles Plains ?

Adelaide? they could feed the hot water into a duplicate water mains.

Just think, Adelaide then would have clean, hot and cold running water.
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For anyone interested in finding out more about nuclear power and various aspects of the nuclear industry, is worth checking the World Nuclear Association website www.world-nuclear.org

Originally Posted by Chucaro

But were you will dispose the waste, in Gilles Plains ?

coober pedy.

its a big hole as it is

Nuclear power is really the only answer for future power if we like it or not.


Aus should do what France does and that is off a small town to have plant near them and the town gets free power and lots of free local services by the government.
So in France you will come across small towns with huge sports centres and cinemas . All really cheap and of course no one pays power bills.

As you imagine they have towns queued up to have a nuclear power plants on their door step.


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Bring it on. As a Pom, I grew up surrounded by nuclear power stations and the Australian objection to them just, for me, doesn't compute.

Chernobyl, even at the worst realistic estimates, killed maybe 60,000 people (by which I mean, shortened the lives of) since it went off. More people have died on Australia's (just Australia's) roads in the same period.

The natural background radiation in e.g. parts of Cornwall is higher than around, say, Dounreay nuclear power station. And so on.

And everyone is worried about the half life of nuclear waste, and how long this toxic material will have to be stored for. What about ocean acidification (I'll leave alone climate change for the moment) and its impact on the global food chain? The oceans take up CO2 and their acidity levels rise. We can see it happening just now. The problem with that is that we can also see a decline in the amount of plankton, which means that everything higher in the food chain also declines. Snapper for dinner? Only while stocks last...

Ultimately, if we don't embrace nuclear, the half life of waste doesn't matter. We will have been swamped much sooner by all the other environmental impacts we're generating.

And no, solar is emphatically NOT the answer. And no, we will not be reducing our energy consumption any time soon.

Originally Posted by London Boy

Bring it on. As a Pom, I grew up surrounded by nuclear power stations and the Australian objection to them just, for me, doesn't compute.

Chernobyl, even at the worst realistic estimates, killed maybe 60,000 people (by which I mean, shortened the lives of) since it went off. More people have died on Australia's (just Australia's) roads in the same period.

The natural background radiation in e.g. parts of Cornwall is higher than around, say, Dounreay nuclear power station. And so on.

And everyone is worried about the half life of nuclear waste, and how long this toxic material will have to be stored for. What about ocean acidification (I'll leave alone climate change for the moment) and its impact on the global food chain? The oceans take up CO2 and their acidity levels rise. We can see it happening just now. The problem with that is that we can also see a decline in the amount of plankton, which means that everything higher in the food chain also declines. Snapper for dinner? Only while stocks last...

Ultimately, if we don't embrace nuclear, the half life of waste doesn't matter. We will have been swamped much sooner by all the other environmental impacts we're generating.

And no, solar is emphatically NOT the answer. And no, we will not be reducing our energy consumption any time soon.

+1. Makes good sense to me.
What was the name of the 1st Nuclear Power Stn in the UK.?..Was it Harwell...I think my Brother In Law worked there....one of the oldest...yet NO problems there at all.
Cheers, Pickles.