Australian Professor fears “Mad Max” future if Nuclear Energy isn’t used
In order to thwart a “Mad Max” like future, an Australian professor argued at a recent energy conference that Australia needs to start building Nuclear Power plants.
He says wind and solar power will not be viable to meet energy demands when the electricity grid eventually fails under extreme pressure.
“They are straining right now and a few more years of growth, a few more hot summers and a few more years of drought and eventually people will face the inevitable; that we need electricity and that electricity needs to be reliable,” he said.
“And to get base load power we do not want to have coal generation; the only sensible and sustainable base load power is uranium.
“If people start dying in hospitals because there’s no electricity, if people can’t get water because there’s no electricity to pump water from dams, if people can’t keep their food cool because there’s no electricity for refrigeration, then I think there’ll be a very, very, very rapid change of opinion.”
Unless you want Mel Gibson riding around on a motorcycle in the Australian Outback, I would heed this professor’s warning.
The Australian Society of Foreign Energy Executives has developed a plan to provide abundant, low emission power to Australia by 2020. Read “Crusty Coal to Clean Kilowatts” at http://www.asfee.org
«The quantity of radioactivity, which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity spread by a nuclear bomb – significantly larger.», (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist
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«Since a reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt nuclear explosion, and fuel in a reactor has typically been there for an average of two years, a typical nuclear reactor has in its core the long-lived radioisotopes from 30 megatons of fission.», Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), »Can the World Do Without Nuclear Power?«, Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001
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Please inform the public regarding the «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity»:
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• A nuclear power plant produces each day the same amount of radioactivity than 4 nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima!
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• The 5 Swiss nuclear power plants contain radioactivity approximately the size of 10’000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs! This in the production of 2 years.
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This inconceivable amount of radioactivity – this «Climatic Change caused by Radioactivity» – threatens and destroys the foundations of life for our and all future generations. The physical half-lives are completely irrelevant, as they are eternal from a human perspective. Also irrelevant is the calculated probability for accidents, as the potential for damage is far too gigantic. The nuclear physicist Garwin says: «Reactor accidents … too horrible to think about.» A trustworthy banker would advice: «We do not buy these shares» and insurances don’t cover this risk anyway.
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Upon the election of Barack Obama, it was the German politician Hans Dietrich Genscher, who reminded strongly and multiple times to the global top priority: The complete abolition of all nuclear weapons!
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Beside the financial crises and despite the «Climatic Change caused by CO2», we should not forget this. And we shouldn’t forget as well, that this – the abolition of all nuclear weapons – finally is only possible together with the abolition of all nuclear power plants, therefore the switch to Natural Power (electricity from renewable energies) is a pre-requisite. The nuclear conflict in Iran is one but not the only example of this undividable relation between nuclear weapons and nuclear power.