big volumes pre 3b. now nothing. why?, page-16

Nuclear wont ever happen in Australia - which leaves gas, black coal and...brown coal.
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"Nuclear advocates frequently proclaim the need for a public debate about building nuclear power reactors in Australia. Well, last Thursday they got one, staged in front of 1200 people at the Melbourne Town Hall and they were trounced.

A poll before the debate found an 8 per cent margin in favour of nuclear power. A further poll taken immediately after the debate revealed a margin of 24 per cent against nuclear power 34 per cent in favour, 58 per cent against.

This 32 per cent turn-around was all the more surprising given that the pro-nuclear debating team included heavy-hitters Dr Ziggy Switkowski and Dr James Hansen, the "godfather" of climate change science and head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies...

One obvious objection is that fourth generation nuclear power is still decades away. Yet we urgently need to reduce greenhouse emissions...

Dr Mark Diesendorf, an academic at the University of NSW and one of the participants in the Melbourne Town Hall debate, notes that: "On top of the perennial challenges of global poverty and injustice, the two biggest threats facing human civilisation in the 21st century are climate change and nuclear war. It would be absurd to respond to one by increasing the risks of the other. Yet that is what nuclear power does."

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nuclear-does-not-have-the-answers-we-need-20100309-puao.html