Spoonman Podcast discusses nuclear power for Australia

“Spoonman” (an Australian host of a radio program, on the Triple M network) has produced a good little podcast, where he discusses the prospects of nuclear power in Australia, alongside Zygmunt Switkowski, the well-known nuclear physicist who heads up ANSTO, and headed the Howard government’s Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review.

Here’s the podcast (a typical mp3 download) – it’s worth listening to.

August 25, 2008 - Posted by Luke Weston | Uncategorized | | 3 Comments

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My keen sense of contemporary Australian current affairs places this item sometime in early 2007.

Comment by Finrod | August 25, 2008 | Reply
Best quote about the anti’s: “Logical argument doesn’t seem to work.”

Based on the experience at the “World’s Largest PV Solar Plant” in Spain, a 100 km x 100 km solar plant, which would cost tens of trillions of dollars according to the podcast, would be equivalent to only about 40 small (by today’s standards, 1000 MWe) nuclear reactors.

Comment by bryfry | August 25, 2008 | Reply
True, Finrod – I think it was produced last year. It hasn’t dated much, though!

Comment by Luke Weston | August 25, 2008 | Reply

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I’ve started this blog as my contribution to the online pro-nuclear-energy grass roots blog-based community i’ve seen developing, which I’ve followed with great interest.

Like many, i’ve decided that as a scientist, I simply can no longer in good conscience just sit idly by and watch things that are not scientifically true be spread on an astonishing scale, when it comes to this debate over the world’s fission energy renaissance.

Well, that is one of my areas of interest, but I certainly have nothing against blogging about other areas of politics, technology, science and society.

I’m a student at the University of Melbourne, Australia, majoring in Physics and Computer Engineering. Don’t worry, I’ve *almost* graduated. Perhaps I should stop blogging and get back to the books?

As far as nuclear energy is concerned. I have no commercial or professional ties or conflicts of interest with regards to the nuclear energy, nuclear fuel or Uranium mining industries what so ever. Still, that doesn’t change anything. Some people will call me a shill, but some people can convince themselves of anything they dream up.

I’m a Liberal, (and an atheist) and usually a voter for the Australian Labor Party. That said, however, I can not at all disagree with John Howard’s policies of rationally investigating the feasibility of nuclear energy for Australia – although I didn’t vote for him in 2007, for other reasons.

That said, however, I generally seem to disagree with “far Left” politics, such as the Australian Greens and other “Green” Parties, and I certainly seem to find myself at odds with the far-leftist socialist political organisations that seem to breed like rabbits around universities in particular the world over.

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