“Why is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?”

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“But what the critics say is Australia has no civilian nuclear power industry, we're starting from scratch. And as yet, the commercial viability of these small reactors has not been proven. There is not yet one commercially operating in the world. “

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“Hi everyone, about a minute on bad news in the US nuclear power sector. Yesterday, new scale power and the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems announced they were cancelling plans to build a new scale reactor or set of reactors at a site in Idaho.” 

“And the reason it was kaput was that, It was considered not commercially viable. I was reading an account from Bloomberg, and the response of the former head of that project was, this is a dead horse and we've got to get off it. But now, this did not deter the advocates.

“The charity C4C had paid for all these key Coalition people to go to the big UN climate summit last November in Dubai. According to Ted O'Brien, he was there because he'd had an invitation from the World Nuclear Association to speak at the conference and C4C was the host of the meeting where he spoke there. So that coming together of this, what had been a sort of rather obscure environmental charity in Australia with the Coalition nuclear policy, I think it said a lot. And it said to me the Coalition knows they need advocates out there pushing the nuclear policy, because at the moment in Australia there is no real social licence for it.”

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“Matt Kean says supporting nuclear is an attempt to delay and defer responsible and decisive action on climate change. It's an attack on his federal counterparts, who've made nuclear power a key part of their energy plan.” 

#auspol #NuclearLobby #Renewables #TheSaturdayPaper #7amPodcast #LNPFail #SMR #Nuclear
 

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/the-lobbyists-behind-peter-duttons-nuclear-promise

From: @ki_sekiya
https://aus.social/@ki_sekiya/112575503741690020

A #nuclear assault on #freedoms in #SouthAfrica

Industry shows contempt for democratic processes and civil society groups

By Gerard Boyce, November 26, 2023

"Written by Mr. Hügo Krüger, a civilian nuclear engineer whose biosketch indicates that he is ‘writing a book on the #GreenMovement and its negative effect on global politics’, he describes it as advice he would give government when selecting a #NuclearPowerPlant. As part of this checklist, the author advises government to question, 'Is there a legal and national security strategy in place to battle the NGO industrial complex so they cannot intentionally delay the project?'

"The antagonistic note struck in this guideline offers deep insight into what the #NuclearIndustry really feels about democratic processes and illustrates the contempt in which it seems to hold civil society groups that call upon government to engage citizens in good faith by providing platforms for meaningful public debate and to see to it that adequate civilian oversight mechanisms and legal safeguards that guarantee restitution to affected communities are in place before it [government] contemplates making a decision of this magnitude.

"Presumably, #ProNuclear voices will become more shrill as the window of opportunity for undertaking such an ambitious venture narrows due to government’s room for fiscal maneuver being squeezed by the toll which rolling electricity blackouts (called ‘load-shedding’ in South Africa), lackluster economic growth and ballooning public debt, among others, are likely to exert on government finances.

"If so, South Africans can expect nuclear #lobbyists to redouble their efforts to influence key policymakers and that the preference they previously revealed for conducting deals behind closed doors away from public scrutiny will intensify.

"For this reason, it is asserted that the nuclear industry represents an imminent threat to the system of democracy in South Africa and contends that, until the nuclear question is settled decisively, it will continue to chip away at the country’s fragile democratic foundations by casting aspersions on those who seek to hold public representatives to account and advocate for greater public input in decision-making by portraying them as being unpatriotic or anti-development.

"To combat the threat posed by the nuclear lobby and reinforce our system of democracy, this author moves that the South African government should put its nuclear plans to a public referendum, but only after suitable public education campaigns are run to address the public’s limited knowledge of nuclear power.

"A nuclear referendum is the ideal way to force nuclear supporters and pro-nuclear politicians to make their case to voters and the tax-paying public rather than direct their efforts to attacking those who seek to ensure that government acts with transparency and makes decisions that are genuinely in the best interest of all South Africans not just a small clique of insiders.

"Unlike the lists of guidelines drawn up by sundry nuclear lobbyists, this is one nuclear #policymaking guideline every South African will agree government ought to abide by."

https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2023/11/26/a-nuclear-assault-on-freedoms-in-south-africa/

#NoNukes #SouthAfrica #NuclearLobby #Corporations #Censorship #Secrecy #CorporateColonialism

#NuclearColonialism, Pt 1

#UraniumMining in the Dine’ Nation

"Back in the day we heard 'Atoms for Peace,' now they're saying 'Atoms for Climate' (..) #Uranium is everywhere, but the uranium that's produced and extracted is predominantly on #IndigenousLands worldwide."

-#LeonaMorgan

#NuclearWaste #MiningWaste #NuclearLobby #NuclearIndustry #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #NavajoNation #EnvironmentalRacism #greenwashing #UraniumPoisoning #SMRs

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/nuclear-colonialism-part-1-on-uranian-mining-in-the-dine-nation-bad-press-at-sundance

When we realised just how much influence the #nuclearLobby has over almost everything including #mediaGiants and that there's no point #working in #theSystem that's dedicated to this #poisoning of people and planet, and the seemingly endless expansion and #growth that destroys every #ecosystem and #humanSoul it touches, and how our own #data is being crunched against us…

That's when we realised the urgency of voices like #Assange, why we need #privacy for *almost* everything.

Forgive us.

"That's a really nice effort you put into that report on #developers and #realEstate moguls intimidating #communityGroups. Its #print-worthy, but by chance would you be able to tell me, what is your opinion on #nuclearEnergy."

WTF?!

#nuclearLobby #astroturf #democracy #corporateMedia #forcedNews #legacyMedia