Reactors for Australia? - YES! : Melbourne Indymedia

Much progress has been made in safe reactor technologies recently and safe clean fusion reactors should soon be a going concern. A test prototype is almost ready for testing and the results will be webcast as they come to paw.

As far as fission reactors go well they are probably not a good idea. It's not a bad idea to sometimes skip technological cycles - India is doing this with WiFi - Au can wait until safer cleaner fusion reactors come online instead of paying a small fortune for the ' Collins class' of dangerous and dirty fission reactors.
If John Howard resembles Monty Burns and Kim Beazley, Homer Simpson is this scenario then thats simply a coincidence.
Fission reactors such as Canada's CanDu reactors may very well have a good safety record however it doesn't pay to torture test these things does it. Chernobyl and Three mile island come to mind. I was in the states in 1979 when, for three days, everyone wondered whether the entire east coast was about to become unihabitable for the next 250,000 years.
People are still dying from Chernobyl and vast spaces around Pripyat are a Canberra type wasteland.
The only people in favour of fission reactors are probably old capitalist pigs and terrorists.
Friends of the Earth was saying 35 years ago that uranium creates a police state. Well now we have a police state , I know, but that is still no argument for letting the material for a thousand dirty bombs loose.
I have to go to Melbourne occasionally for coffee donchaknow ...
Savings in wasted energy and more research into appropriate sustainable technolgies seems the wise move.
All the more reason to change the government actually.
And, no, I don't mean the Alternative Liberal Party either.
I mean change to a net based form of direct democracy.
Another bee in my bonnet is water.
Of course any entertainment journalist worth their salt has water on the brain.
People here know that the RAT institute is running double blind mice trials on exterme water recycling. ( Sear ' Dune' and Simon Thaur, for more on this exciting new research area) What some rat scientist's may be unaware of is rat dew harvesting projects we are running in WA.
The morning fog may yield vast amounts and then there are salt water condensing greenhouse's.
Delicious rat salad items can be grown in these with sea water being condensed by sunlight to clear enough water to grow the lettuce and tomatoes.
RAT science never sleeps my friends and so I request your small contribution toward a better future through rat progress. All donations add up to better lab conditions and are fully tax evadable. Please steal from the rich and give generously to a worthy cause.
Net travel - yes!
Solar - yes!
Wind - yes!
Recycling - yes!
35 hour month - yes!
Seqestration of old politician's - FUCK YES!