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Joined: 03/06/2019
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1585
| Posted: 01:44am 28 Sep 2021 |
Our Defense forces have a long history of buying the wrong tools for the Job. I know nothing about the subs or have any interest. I know well from family whom have been in key admin roles within the defense forces that is is all political and to do far more with backhanders than selecting the best weapons for our needs.
I am dead set against nuke at least as far as power generation goes. The proponents are always bleating about accidents can't happen with new tech but there are to obviously flaws to that BS.
Firstly, they never take the old reactors off line that have been problematic in the past.
Secondly, I don't think any incident has been due to equipment failure. The problem is always HUMAN failure. Someone always wants to cut costs, cut corners, appease the higher ups, Makes a Human error etc.
Chernobyl was human error. Fukushima was human stupidity, ignorance and cost cutting, 3 Mile island was the same and there are loads of incidents that we never hear about from a corrupt to the core industry.
If you look up chernoybl there is some moronic and insulting figure of something like only 5 people Died. They say none Died at Fukushima which is also crap.
Even ignoring that, look at the thousands of acres of land made uninhabitable forever. The amount of people displaced and had their lives ruined.
I see typical ignorant commentary on the issue where the soft of heart and head crap on about Thorium reactors. Yes, the save the world energy fairy tale of the last 40 years that's been just around the corner all that time yet there is not a single operational Reactor making power anywhere in the world yet. Maybe another 40 years and there will be one outside a lab.
The only good thing about nuke Generation here would be that I'll be long gone before they ever get round to powering one up in this country.
We can't even put a railway through the city without major stuff ups, technical issues and gargantuan cost blowouts that put the completion years behind.
Nuke power station.... Bwhahahaah!
Country would go broke trying to get a single one up and running.