Umm. No.

[Stompsy]

http://m.smartplanet.com/blog/smart...d-with-controversial-nuclear-waste-bill/24200

 

[vampstorso]

I get fired up about a lot of things.
But most things I can get over.

I understand the place for nuclear use in society...with x rays and radiation therapy...and thats as far as my acceptance goes. even then, I don't agree really, but understand it cant be helped. as nuclear use is something that gets under my skin like nothing else.

I've always said once this type of crap starts happening here, along with proposed nuclear power stations,I'll leave and never look back. Looks like we're getting too those days!

 

[Renenet]

Sigh! Why do they always put this stuff on Aboriginal land? (Don't answer that; it was a rhetorical question.)

 

[saximus]

I will put a disclaimer on this that I don't know enough to have a seriously educated opinion about this BUT to play devil's advocate for a second - I remember reading that, out of anywhere, the middle of Australia is one of the safest places to "store" ("dump" is a deliberately provocative word IMO) nuclear waste because it is so dry. The biggest issue with nuclear waste storage is underground water seeping in and getting contaminated. So why not choose the driest area of the driest continent in the world?

 

[BrownHash]

I will put a disclaimer on this that I don't know enough to have a seriously educated opinion about this BUT to play devil's advocate for a second - I remember reading that, out of anywhere, the middle of Australia is one of the safest places to "store" ("dump" is a deliberately provocative word IMO) nuclear waste because it is so dry. The biggest issue with nuclear waste storage is underground water seeping in and getting contaminated. So why not choose the driest area of the driest continent in the world?

Isn't antartica the driest continent?

 

[saximus]

Haha I was waiting for that. Technically yeah I think it is for annual rainfall figures

 

[Flaviruthless]

I think it's much better to be stored in a central, geologically stable and well maintained area than in a number of temporary places... I also believe that right now, with the pathetic effort most governments put in to research and development, nuclear energy could be a temporary solution to a growing population with higher energy demands.

 

[vampstorso]

I find the Aboriginal land part irrelevant...
I think that's just them trying too play a sob story.

Plenty of non indigenous people have too leave places important too them all the time.


The fact we create it to be dumped is what I find upsetting.
Have we not learnt from previous experience, that of our own and other countries, that it's gonna bite EVERYONE in the butt one day?
The animals suffer more than people. They don't know too leave.


But...that's just somewhat heartless old me.



And now I won't return too this thread and nuclear debates frustrate me too much haha

 

[Australis]

Besides cost sending it to the moon seems like a solution to me, transported out of our atmosphere via some form of bean stalk system.

The whole cant be put on aboriginal land thing is an emotional debate, if it came from "aboriginal land" why don't they want it back ? ^^