The Nuclear Power Debate

I posted this on the news.com.au comments/blogs somewhere.. but i guess they never put it up for it was too long or they didn't like it anyway.. here are my thoughts.. *ps i haven't bothered putting the spellchecker through.. as i increasingly feel that the more tools i use to " ïmprove" my language skills the more they detoriate <-- *spelling* :) over time.. i think microsoft word is making us dumber ..don't you agree ? * anyway.. here are my thoughts on N-Power

Perfect Timing. Hmm isnt it a bit sus that just when the government decides to open up the nuclear debate..there is an accident at Lucas Heights. Makes me wonder if there have been incidents before but never reported..

anyway.. regarding nuclear debate.. there is absolutely no argument that nuclear fuel is more environmentally friendly than the fossil fuels that we burn.. no argument at all.. anyone who argues contra just doensn't know enough about the topic.

The key question is .. is it safer? again lets not talk about Chernobyl.. they were undertrained, poorly resourced,underpaid,overworked human beings who made a mistake that was not rectified by overused,unmaintained,antique management platform.

With current systems.. a nuclear meltdown can't happen, no ONE person can cause a chain reaction with the current systems in place(accidently/maliciously) anyone who DOES NOT know the management protcol and systems platform of western nuclear reactors.. dont jump up and down at this comment.. go and visit one and know how it works first... yes its safe .. however just like what happened in sept 11.. 4 plaanes were hijacked on one day.. where none had been hijacked in 10 years .. coming to the nuclear debate.. yes if someone manages to get inside a nuclear reactor..stevan segal style manages to pull the radioactive rods out.tom cruise style(quick play the music in your head..) and then cause destruction in sydney with a dirty bomb..Edward Norton style.. we would have a problem.. if you know what i am getting at .. an extraordinary chain of events only likely in movies or heads of people who have too much time....

My Point being .. we cannot stop and entire field of science which will provide this planet with a reliable source of fuel without causing air pollution,water pollution, de-forestation etc.. for generations .. for the mere sake of what ifs and buts.. if such ..lets stop electricity as kids might electrocute themselves or.. the reason why cars,electricity,planes,pesticides,medicines have become safer over generations is simply because we learnt from our mistakes and unfortunately human lives * i am not being insenstive here* .. but how many of your loved ones have had cancer.. and how many of them got treated for it ? if we had halted medical science 40 years ago.. many australians would have died by now of skin cancer for one... * the topic of WHY CANCER rates have increased.. is a new thread*
we have learnt from Cherynobl.. a terrible disaster.. we have learn't from the gas leak of bhopal again a terrible tragedy.. and we will keep on learning and perfecting everything we have created...from the angle of the technology not being safe enough.. the arguments do seem to crumble..when we walk out in the sun and feel the sting and physically sense at the havoc fossil fuels are causing to our ozone layer..
again at this point i will have to side track and engage those of you who want to point out that cars and industry spew more crap in the air then coal burning power stations....again please rationalise.. there is no reason why cars and industry would not be able to able to run on SAFE nuclear engines and turbines..agreed that we can only do that if we learn how to control nuclear fission and my point is that WE CAN ONLY LEARN IF WE ARE ALLOWED TO... time is literally running out.. we need more students,engineers and an entire industry to reserach and spawn alternative technologies (esp controlable nuclear fission) than we simply need to make voters aware that the N word is not that bad....stop comparing nuclear power to nuclear WEAPONS.. you are allowed to do that if you are not a hypocrite.. hey don't bloody sit in a commercial PLANE because it was a military PLANE that dropped Little Boy and Fatman on japan.. dont drive a car because YOUR car adds to the pollution.. don't wear coloured clothes.. because it is YOUR dye that is seeping into water streams in Gujarat, India and getting people sick. ...YOUR mere existence as a human being is a threat to the very cause that you are protecting get my point ? ..then please do not stop a technology which in reality promises so so much..

this brings me to nuclear waste.. something that i haven't tackled now.. i really would turn a lot of my fellow citizens away right now .. by saying that Australia..yes Australia is infact the safest place in the world to dump nuclear waste...there is thousands of kilometers of unused/arid totally useless * i don't only mean from a human perspective..again a different thread if you want to talk about this..lets get back to the main topic* land in NT,WA and some part of NW QLD.. where there are no underwater streams and and outside of Great Artisian Basin.. no fault lines and extremely low chance of sesmic activities...where we can safely.. yes i mean safely *** go type up bentonite nuclear waste sweden .. in google NOW and before you read the next few lines.. unfortunately some environmentalists shoot at everything simply because they don't LIKE and WANT nuclear technology to begin with **** bury nuclear fuel.. infact i am sure if we are allowed to explore the technology further we may even find a way to recycle nuclear waste..hey it may even be economically viable through nuclear rockets to just pump it up in space outside orbit pattern and pointing towards let's say Orion **** i don't think it will harm anyone unless you want to talk angry aliens or it coming back byitself after making a round in space.. if so you must be logging in from nimbin ****..

The gist of my whole argument is this:
we must and i state again we must be allowed to explore options and develop this technology..so that we can make the world SAFER yes safer and leave something for our future generations.

We have to stop our overreliance on oil as human beings..yes i agree its not only nuclear power that we should explore.. there is plenty of energy in waves.. hell all of our cities bar a few odd ones *hehee alice springs etc* are on water.. and don't waves have energy ? ;) ..the key diference is that in uranium there is so much energy stored in such little space ..to put it bluntly..which makes nuclear technology a superb viable option ..it would also fit into the capitalist nature of human beings ie there would be strong barriers of entry where mine leases all the way to power-stations through to storage would be in the hands of few such the Exxons and Shells of today.. i am really happy with that because it is through the 'collective' efforts of such companies that today you and i can go from sydney to brisbane in 1 hour...yes they have made themselves rich along the way.. but this is the crux of my thinking.. you and i would love 'free' source energy.. but really in whose intrests is it ? its a utopian idea.. but is it likely to happen? .. i am willing to trade large parts of my life just like how i am doing now.. and so are you by going to work.. paying interest rates ..filling up cars..and all the other things that we are conditioned to do since existence..from the times that we were apes ..to the times of kings and queens to now .. we have followed a system and a hierachy of bargaining our existence with each other in some form.. where we gave our wheat and barely to our kings and they let us live to now when we are paying insurance etc.. which prolongs our life among other ancillary comforts that we enjoy.. we have always bargained.. i am sorry of doing this the long way.. but the point i am getting on is this.... in the last 100 years we have have set about a collective force so powerful *** in our quest to climb up Maslow's hierachy.. go read it up if you haven't.. a brilliant yet simple observation*** that we are now in a position to destroy everything around us ..including us. Where we can do that immediately with nuclear weapons.. we are doing it slowly with our reliance on fossil fuels.. there IS an alternative and thats Nuclear Fuel..waves,the sun,wind are alternatives but as i explained earlier.. don't waste your time changing the status quo.. don't ask for too much.. bargain... because we are really running out of time.. lets focus on making a commercial and profitable technology safe and cheap.. so that we can all benefit and move into a new age just like we did we when ... made the wheel..

lets give Nuclear energy a try

please feel free to put comments up .. !!! if you agree with me please let me know !! if you don't please please let me know too !! this affects all of us we live on the same planet .. so say something !!! NOW !!