Why should taxpayers fund the most expensive and slowest energy option when so many alternatives are significantly cheaper and pose less financial risk?
Nuclear power
The nuclear option: too slow, too costly
It’s not radioactivity or scare campaigns that are the nuclear industry’s biggest problem, it’s the maths: the numbers show that for decades to come, it will offer less and less of a solution to climate change, and simply takes too long and costs too much to develop.
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UN secretly negotiating with Iran to lift nuclear sanctions
Documents leaked to the Times reveal the United Nations has been negotiating with Iranian officials to lift the country’s nuclear sanctions, allowing it to retain most of its nuclear program, in return for co-operation with UN inspectors.
Greenpeace: Our plan for a nuclear-free Australia
Greenpeace’s Steve Campbell says Australia can be powered by clean energy without resorting to nuclear like France, Finland and now the UK. Instead, we should follow the lead of countries like Spain, who can generate more than half of its energy needs from renewables.
ANSTO poll goes radioactive, quietly changes no to yes
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has been caught out trying to manipulate a web poll on its own web site about nuclear power, replacing the “I am against it” option with “It is one of the options”.
The people who call Chernobyl home
No-one is allowed to live in the 30-km exclusion zone around Chernobyl; but in the 23 years since the disaster, some survivors have returned anyway, living illegally in their own homes in this bizarre, post-apocalyptic community.
Political snippets: An election coming on
When a State Attorney General starts talking of a group of young, predominantly Aboriginal, people as “pure evil” you are reminded that there is an election coming on.
graph pr0n A history of nuclear polling
With a new poll today revealing almost half of Australians now support considering nuclear power as an alternative energy source, Possum Comitatus charts the history of polling on the issue since 2006.
Why politicians stay in the dark on nuclear power
Even though Australia produces 40% of the world’s uranium, and a growing number of Australians support exploring nuclear power as an option, successive governments have been too scared of the political fallout to embrace nuclear. It’s time they grew a spine, says the Brisbane Times.
Australians go green — fluro green
49% of Australians believe the government should consider nuclear power as a source of alternative energy — up from 38% only three years ago, a new Age/Nielsen poll reveals.
Why is “nuclear” still a dirty word in Australia?
A new poll has found an increasing number of Australians are warming to the idea of nuclear power as a cleaner, greener energy source. But will the shadows of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island always loom over the nuclear option? ask Geoff Strong and Ian Munro.
Are we over-reacting on Iran?
The West must stop exaggerating the Iranian threat, says Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria: the Middle East has had nuclear weapons for decades, and the world hasn’t ended yet. There’s no need to go in with all guns blazing.
Is Iran hiding more secret nuclear sites?
In a promising step forward, Iran has pledged to let the UN in to inspect its newly disclosed nuclear facility. But if that one was kept secret for years, how many others are there we don’t know about?
How Obama was forced to play his hand
News of Iran’s secret nuclear fuel processing plant may come as a surprise to most of the world, but the US has known for years, Politico reveals. So why did they finally bring it u now?
Iran vs. the world
Over the weekend, Obama and the UN called Iran out over a secret nuclear facility. Ahmedinejad came clean and invited the IAEA over for a look. But the US wants to come too. So Iran allayed everyone’s fears by firing off some missiles. Will Obama respond with tougher sanctions?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The cash splash of the stimulus
Crikey readers weigh in on the economic stimulus ‘cash splash’, Senator Steve Fielding’s learning disability and the idea of a boycott on Israel.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: John Howard and the High court
Crikey readers weigh in on nuclear power, John Howard and the High court, the death of Teddy Kennedy and messy Queensland politics.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A word on wordles
Crikey readers examine our worldle word-play, and discuss home births, nuclear power, super funds, Afghanistan and more.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nuclear power and relations with China
Crikey readers weigh in on nuclear power, relations with China and the politics between the Greens and the Nationals.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Rudd’s stimulating package and nuclear power
Crikey readers weigh in on Rudd money, nuclear power and the confusing absence of ‘working families’ in Kevin Rudd’s Wordle.
Paul Howes’ u-propaganda is radioactive
Regurgitating industry propaganda might go down well at the Sydney Institute but it is no substitute for informed debate on nuclear power, writes Jim Green.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
Going nuclear: a necessary part of our future?
Whether we go nuclear ourselves or not, nukes will be part of Australia’s future — and it may not be as bad as many now perceive, says Larvatus Prodeo.
Killing nuclear: energy politics in Spain
Unpopular Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to close down the country’s oldest nuclear power plant by 2013, but his critics are questioning if this is desirable.
