[LINK] Should Australia consider nuclear electricity?

[Stephen Loosley]

Thanks Karl .. informed, clever and certainly rather persuasive emails ..

From: Karl Auer<mailto:kauer at biplane.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2021 4:26 PM
To: Link at mailman.anu.edu.au<mailto:link at mailman.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Should Australia consider nuclear electricity?

On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 02:51 +0000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Nuclear’s sustainability makes the energy source an attractive tool
> for the UK as it aims achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Sorry forgot to add: Just as Australia has more sun than you can poke a
stick at, Britain has the legendary winds off the North Sea. They don't
merely shake the darling buds of May; they rip them off and blow them
where the sun don't shine :-)

Why are so many countries bound and determined to NOT use the clean and
plentiful energy sources they have?

Also forgot to add: Does Britain have local sources of nuclear fuel? I
don't know whether they do, but the phrase "the uranium mines of
Dorset" doesn't ring a bell. If not, they will also have to buy,
transport and store fuel (and possibly, god-forbid, refine it as well).
Each of those activities is fraught with the danger of extreme
pollution.

We lose who knows how many millions of litres of crude oil every year
in the oceans, do we really want to risk making the seas radioactive as
well? To the extent that they are not already, because several
countries already think it's just fine to drop their nuclear waste in
the sea...

Regards, K.

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