Another break in the clouds of irrationality? Australia to build 10 nuclear reactors

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The head of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Ansto) said such a move would be an effective way to cut emissions in a country which produces more greenhouse gas pollution per person than almost any other developed economy.

Ansto’s chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, wrote recently in the Australian newspaper: “Previous studies have asserted that in the carbon-costed world of the 2020s, nuclear energy will be Australia’s safest, cleanest and lowest cost form of baseload electricity generation. Two thirds of the world’s population in 31 countries … use nuclear electricity apparently with little hesitation.

Critics, however, insist that current methods are no safer than those used at Three Mile Island, which suffered a partial meltdown 30 years ago in America’s worst civilian nuclear accident.

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091230/FOREIGN/712299930/1135

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