| curl-6 said: Nuclear was the red line for me; I already decided not to vote Liberal due to Dutton being a piece of work and their lack of compelling policies, but their pro-nuclear stance would have cost them my vote even if I'd liked their leader and the rest of their policies. No way in hell do I want our country to end up the next Fukushima or Chernobyl, fuck right off with that shit. |
I am a hazmat technician and I get flown across the nation for incidents.
During COVID we had a van stopped at the border of South Australia/Victoria... Which was then searched.
Low-and-behold they found undocumented uranium.
Let's just say from a firefighters perspective, that shit is the last thing on Earth I want to be dealing with in my regular day job.
I have enough hazards that I need to keep on top of rather than add Nuclear/Radiation as a PRIMARY risk... I already have secondary risks to Radiation with mine sites like Olympic Dam.
Thorium reactors are a potential viable choice as they cannot maintain a chain reaction and are less prone to a traditional nuclear meltdown... But that's not what the Liberals were proposing.
In saying that, modern reactors are far far far safer than what we saw with Fukushima or Chernobyl, but Nuclear is extremely water intensive which is not a good fit for the driest inhabited continent on the planet. It's a stupid idea.
Especially when we have oodles of solar and wind capacity, more than any other Nation which we can backup with Hydro, Batteries, Solar Thermal and Geothermal for base load.
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