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John Howard: Australia Cannot Ignore Nuclear Power

By: Daniel Chubb | July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

Australia Cannot Ignore Nuclear Power

John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia has said in a speech that his country cannot keep ignoring nuclear power as an option for energy.

This particularly applies to Australia as the country has the largest uranium reserves in the world and uranium is the key fuel for nuclear power.

John Howard said that, “Nuclear power has no direct carbon dioxide emissions and is already a significant part of the world’s energy system”
“Improved economic competitiveness and safety of nuclear power, along with concern for energy security and climate change, are leading to a steady increase in worldwide nuclear power capacity.’’

The only two countries that did not ratify the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, were the United States and Australia.

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  • viv rendall

    I think we believe and rely too much on nuclear power to be our main power source in future. We should understand and be aware that renewable power sources can be the alternative to nuclear power despite what the pro nuclear lobby says. We are at the crossroads of that happening now.
    We also have to cite the very obvious that we will never have a safe nuclear industry because we live in a world entrenched in crazy ideologies. We are in dire need to have safe cheap power sources and reduce global warming as well and only renewables will in the end do that.
    There has been a breakthrough in renewable energy base power production! I refer to solar thermal power using a cheap flat mirror system and storage by the disassociation of ammonia in an endothermic reactor then stored at ambient temperature and used at any later time even during wintertime the sun’s energy is not lost being chemically locked up. Then reapplied to an exothermic reactor heat is produced at about 500 degrees to provide steam for power generation. This closed loop system enables 24/7 base power production for industry and it also is able to provide medium or peak power on demand. Not only that the storage system is easy to do and cheap and is based on mature technology and enables the sun’s energy to be stored any length of time without loss so that the energy can be extracted in the wintertime if necessary or any time in the future! No other storage system can do this and it is a real breakthrough. A gigawatt plant is right now being built in America financed by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla who says that solar thermal power is poised for explosive growth because of it’s low costs together with Australian scientist Dr David Mills.. A general understanding and awareness of solar thermal power (CSP) can be seen on http://www.trec-uk.org.uk/index.htm and (http://www.trecers.net/index.html and http://www.trec.net.au/ and understanding of the storage system in schematic form can be seen at
    http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEresearch/solarthermal/high_temp/thermochem/index.php