[lbo-talk] Nuclear Power debate in Australia.--questions, questions, questions....

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 6 02:49:55 PDT 2006


Dear LOBsters,

Sorry Doug, this may be one too many posts for one day. What day is it up there?

Anyway, ever since John Howard (Australia's PM) came back from meeting with the Shrub, he's been hot to introduce the nuclear power debate in Australia. Of course, this is all being greenwashed as a solution to global warming and of course, there seems always to be an eventual connection to nuclear weapons attached to nuclear power. And I'm sure, that as good pollies do, they'll sell it partially as a "jobs program", maybe even for the chronically jobless Aboriginal population. Didn't the employing class do that with a lot of Native Americans in decades past i.e. uranium mining?

What do list members know about the relative use of existing fossil fuel energy in order to obtain energy from nuclear power. It seems to me that it would take a hell of lot of mining, trucking, general transport etc. and eventually, burying/guarding to maintain nukes. And how long would the good stuff last,if used on a world scale,--rich uranium--before plutonium would have to be used? Has there ever been a "successful" breeder reactor? Stealing and WMD are obvious problems. And what about cost? The capitalists are always concerned about cost efficiency--heck, they even apply it to democracy. ;P Why not just build wind turbines; wave energy capture machines? Not enough profits? What is it with nuclear energy which makes it so much more attractive to use to boil water? That's all they're doing, right--boiling water to make steam to turn generators, or? Is it just the weapons potential or is it really cheap as compared with making parabolic mirrors and using the sun or geothermal devices like the ones in Iceland?

If you've got sources, just e-mail me privately. Or hell, why not the list, 'cause this issue ain't going away soon. And talk about nuclear proliferation!

Regards, Mike B) from Western Australia where a hell of a lot of uranium capitalists await legislation to allow them to hire workers to get the stuff out and about.

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