Some good points there, however they failed to mention two of the more important reactor technologies;
One is the self moderating pebble bed reactors, such as the one that is being developed in South Africa...
The other is the thorium based reactor design, which India are being the first people to develop.
Thorium waste byproducts have a half life of under 100 years, as opposed to uranium which has beta decay lasting for a few thousand years. Readers Digest are correct when they say we have 40% the world uranium reserves, but we also have 70% of the worlds thorium reserves.
Regarding some of the contra arguments, 3 mile island and chernobyl were both 2nd generation reactors. Chernobyl itself is a graphite moderated pressurised water reactor which is one of the more common types, however it was flawed from the get go with a tendency to go supercritical (High Positive Void Co-efficient). Basically the water is there to absorb neutrons, however when pockets of steam are created, they create a 'void' as steam does not moderate neutrons due to the density being a tonne less (1/1350), which in turn raises the temperature and pressure of the coolant vessel, enough to make the reactor go critical within a fraction of a second. 3rd and 4th gen reactors are all immune to this design flaw.
Most of the negative arguments regarding nuclear are based around the long term storage of fission material (not an issue with thorium waste) as well as the safety of the reactor. Soon as people pull the wool from their eyes and actually read about these technologies, they're still going to think nuclear power is the bogeyman (based upon a 1985 accident with a reactor using 1970's technology).
Considering australia is a big continent with a lot of 'dead' space, its feasible to have nuclear generators located underground in isolated sections of the simpson desert and other places (perhaps maralinga). This way they'd be a harder target for terrorism, can use the integral cooling of the earths crust, and would prevent nuclear fallout if a criticality did occur underground.
Too bad the aust greens won't wake up and smell the doo-doo. Solar and wind are great sources of energy but they just don't fill the demand of modern cities.
-D