How unsafe is nuclear?
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Why only BHP or the Federal Government? Why not all Australians?

We constitute one of the most citified nations on earth. Thus half a dozen hydrogen bombs could wipe out 90 % of the population immediately and most of the rest later, as a consequence of their dependence on the output of cities and of the resulting radioactive pollution.

In the hands of criminal governments nuclear reactors are used as nuclear bomb factories. Even democratic ones have so used some of their reactors. It was a democracy that used the first 2 nuclear “weapons” and it is democracies that hold most of the remaining ones. Terrorists and criminal governments are itching to get their hands on such anti-people and mass murder “weapons”. With nuclear “weapons” one cannot prevent them from gaining them. Thus, should not the targeted people have the ultimate say on this matter? Let us have a referendum on nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons, their stationing, uranium mining and also alliances with nuclear “powers”.

Among the nuclear “weapons” “powers” it should also be the people themselves, who ought to have the last say on them. Not any politicians.

After all, nuclear “weapons” are just conveniently small, cheap and portable extermination camp packages. Do we want to use them against the people in any city of the world?

Do we want them used against us? Should we then console ourselves with the thought that their raw materials were “made in Australia”?

As for energy production: Under the usual government mismanagement only a small fraction of all alternative energy options have so far been utilized.

The decommissioning of alternative energy plants, after their useful lifespan, does not cost very much more than their building and thus they can be economical compared with nuclear reactors - when all the costs of the latter are taken into consideration.

Transmission costs are anyhow the major cost factor in providing electricity from power plants to the consumers.

What fraction of e.g. all the sun, wind, wave, ocean temperature differential, geothermal and tidal power that Australia could utilize has so far been exploited, agriculturally or industrially?

Coal, oil and gas are much too valuable as chemical and biological raw materials to merely burn them for energy production.

All the sun energy that could be captured, directly or indirectly, on the surface of this planet is only a fraction of the sun energy that could be captured in space and transmitted to Earth.

The sun is the only safe enough nuclear reactor for us.

In the hands of any government or its privileged contractors all nuclear reactors on earth and those placed on satellites, put all of us at risk, at least in the long run.

We should also dissolve targets, motives and financing options for nuclear “weapons” by replacing territorial sovereignties with involuntary members by voluntary communities confined to exterritorial autonomoy under personal laws, just as we have done, with great success, in the sphere of religion.

Thus the motives of terrorists would also be undermined. They would become free to do their things for and to themselves, independent of the opinions of temporary and territorial majorities. Free competition for the provision of governmental & societal services! Consumer sovereignty towards them!