f*kushima - Uranium Mining Protests

[Sean'O]

Hey all,

Im not here to preach so I'll cut right to it.

If you've been following the nuclear disaster in Japan and want to get involved there are some protests regarding uranium mining around the country happening soon.

If you're interested, check out link below

http://www.acfonline.org.au/get-involved/events/day-action-end-uranium-mining

Cheers

[MattR]

hey mate do you know the real story about uranium mining??????? im in the industry and hate people that are media orientated and not educated properly.

what do you expect if you build a plant on a fault line???

do you know how the mining is done and ISL process is a lot better than open cut and uranium mined here is not enriched in anyway and cannot be used in bombs etc.

im all for Nuclear power plants if done properly and not on fault lines or flood plains etc.

rant over

[*LOACH*]

hey mate do you know the real story about uranium mining??????? im in the industry and hate people that are media orientated and not educated properly.

what do you expect if you build a plant on a fault line???

do you know how the mining is done and ISL process is a lot better than open cut and uranium mined here is not enriched in anyway and cannot be used in bombs etc.

im all for Nuclear power plants if done properly and not on fault lines or flood plains etc.

rant over

I believe the OP's intention was just to let people know about the protest not start a debate. There are other threads in the "Japan" section discussing f*kushima.

[GTRNUR]

hey mate do you know the real story about uranium mining??????? im in the industry and hate people that are media orientated and not educated properly.

what do you expect if you build a plant on a fault line???

do you know how the mining is done and ISL process is a lot better than open cut and uranium mined here is not enriched in anyway and cannot be used in bombs etc.

im all for Nuclear power plants if done properly and not on fault lines or flood plains etc.

rant over

+1

The only reason we are so reliant on coal for electrical energy production is that the media and films exaggerate the "problems" they see with nuclear energy. The technology to run nuclear reactors with cooling systems turned off without melt downs occurring was developed and proven decades ago.

The problem is countries with short sited governments that persist in running old nuclear infrastructure until it eventually fails, which CAN only end badly. Countries such as our own for example which have navy vessels still reliant on Windows NT4 and dare I say it, Windows 98!

We are a race guided by vocal minorities, and governed by bureaucracy. While the voices of the educated intellectuals that understand the technologies are dismissed as "opinion".

[*LOACH*]

Well actually not all the "educated intellectuals that understand the technologies" agree that nuclear power is the way to go for Australia. Consider the cost of nuclear power stations:

"Associate Professor Mark Diesendorf, a sustainable energy expert based at the University of New South Wales says that, where they operate, nuclear power stations benefit from large hidden subsidies, including taxpayers taking on the burden of insuring and decommissioning power stations and of liability for their breakdowns.

''There would never have been a nuclear power station built in the world without limited liability on accidents, so the public and taxpayers suffer the risks of rare but devastating accidents,'' Diesendorf said.

Take f*kushima: the value of land made unusable plus the cost of evacuating 80,000 people from around the stricken plant was between $US70 billion ($A72 billion) and $US250 billion, according to the Japan Centre for Economic Research, and that was only a small portion of what the ultimate costs would be.

Diesendorf also disputed whether the construction costs were coming down. In Finland, the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power station has been under construction since 2005 and is now four years behind schedule and at least $3.6 billion over budget."

Edited March 3, 2012 by *LOACH*

[Sean'O]

Like I said, I'm not here to preach.

People can research and make up their own minds (tv isn't research)