Christophe wrote:
How funny: are there none in Australia? Anyone have an idea of pkoi?
On November 8, 2005, the Australian government arrested eighteen Islamic terrorists who wanted to detonate Australia's only nuclear power plant
So there is an Australian central; where there was...
Ha !, an answer:
Nuclear in Australia: 25 power plants planned The only Australian nuclear power plant is located near Sydney, the country's economic capital. After years of nuclear resistance, Australia plans to create 25 reactors by 2050 for its electricity production. It is the ecological argument and pragmatism that could prevail, faced with the fear of the atom, long maintained by French nuclear tests in Polynesia.
It is a real revolution that Australia plans to start for its energy production. Long hostile to nuclear power, the subject of violent controversies with France accused of contaminating the South Pacific with its tests in Polynesia, the country is now seriously considering acquiring nuclear power plants. This surprising decision follows an expert report last November, which recommends the construction of 25 nuclear reactors by 2050, which will produce a third of the country's electricity. Official objective: to reduce greenhouse gases.
Ecological and economic objectives
First rejected as a whole by public opinion, the idea seems more and more accepted by the Australians who see it as a solution to fight against global warming. In a few months, nuclear defenders have thus gone from 35% to 45%. The price argument undoubtedly also played a role, with the announcement of significant increases, inevitable in the long term, if the use of coal, particularly polluting, continued at the current rate. Ecological and economic issues have carried. They were, it is true, widely publicized by the government of John Howard, a fierce defender of the nuclear solution. In a country where fossil coal exists in abundance, coal-fired power plants have been, until now, the logical, unavoidable, but, it is true, polluting source of energy with their significant emissions of greenhouse gases ( GHGs).
Nuclear against drought
The ecological argument was the most determining in a country where the ozone hole, global warming and its direct consequence, drought, are very sensitive subjects. The completion of the 25 reactors would allow, according to the report of Australian specialists, the reduction of 8 to 18% of GHG. It remains to be seen where these nuclear reactors would be located. The only small nuclear station in Australia today, located near Sydney, has long been the subject of controversy. We even considered getting rid of it a few years ago. The opposition party, the Labor party, a fervent opponent of nuclear power, recalls that these power stations must be located near abundant water reserves, which means, in a continent three-quarters of which is semi-desert, close to cities and populated areas.
March 30, 2007, Patrick Cros
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