Some of you may have seen my post on "20 Free (docos) on Safe, LIQUID-fuel, Nuclear Energy, from Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs)" (set to be available - ie, in clever Canada - from ~2021).
I, for one, feel AU should be preparing itself to join clever France & other countries, who now aim to -replace- their dependence on FOSSIL-fuels, by using Carbon-free, sustainable, Safe, Small, "New Nukes" (ie, MSRs).
(Even Oil-rich Norway has created an R&D lab, focused on "Energy from Thorium" (not to mention their SuperFund, to enable continuation of the high quality of Life in Norway, even after their North Sea oil revenues stop flowing-in.)
Well, AU has created a hurdle for itself - in Law, no less - that BANS use of Nuclear Energy here!!!
So, there's that OBSOLETE restriction to be removed from AU Law, ie, before we can build & use safe, green, modular, post-Fukushima, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) to help reduce AU's Carbon Footprint.
As MSRs are set to "arrive" in ~2021, we'd better start demanding that this silly BAN be dismantled ASAP.
The Abbot gov't has already begun to -waste- millions of our tax dollars, eg, on expanding a Queensland port, so we can export more of our dirty Coal, faster.
So, money that could have been invested in preparing AU for safe, New Nuclear Energy, eg, by removing such BANs, training our brightest students for high-paying jobs, eg, as Nuclear Physicists or Engineers & creating a Regulatory structure that encourages safe, small, Nuclear Plants in AU… will have to be found elsewhere.
Still, the smart response to Climate Change is energy-dense, safe, Nuclear Energy.
Let me encourage you to take a serious look at MSRs, eg, using app "Thorium" remix to access some of those docks, mentioned in earlier posts.
Let your federal MP know you don't want AU "shackled" to the unhealthy future of FOSSIL-fuel usage, that the current BAN enforces.
PS The BAN is buried in this 1999 Law:
- Environment & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(A very short Section 140A does all the damage here, in EBCA 1999; despite its having been changed through 2014, this Law needs the REMOVAL of Section 140A.)
Let's face it, our dirty Coal & CO2-emitting Gas electricity plants are contributing to the creation of local Climates, that mean more & larger Bushfires & hotter Summers that ever before.
2014 was the Hottest year to date. Want to bet your kids' futures on 2015 & beyond? We don't.
"Know NEW Nukes" & I'm -sure- you'll want 'em to replace AU's FOSSIL-fuel power plants ASAP.
Grab app "Thorium" remix, view its docks, & help spread the word about LIQUID-fuel MSRs.
dude you are insane. They banned it ages ago , they wont reverse the ban because there is no demand for it in aus, our pop is to small and far to spread out to make it viable.