[LINK] Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for data centres

[David]

On 23/10/24 11:03, Scott Howard wrote::
> More than a third of people in the US live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
> The attitude Australians have towards them is very different to that in the US, where people generally have no major concerns of living near them.

Perhaps this is a case of familiarity breeding contempt.  The folks living within 50 miles of Three Mile Island preceding the accident there probably had no concerns either.

In any case, Australia does not have an established nuclear power industry so we'd be completely dependent on overseas expertise for know-how, supply & installation of the nuclear plants, ongoing maintenance of them, reprocessing of spent fuel rods, supply of new fuel, etc.

This is NOT a good strategic position in a highly unstable world.  Only recently the Ukraine was (and still is) worried about a Russian attack on a plant there just as a war-fighting tactic.

_David Lochrin_