coffee2Di4, 2 months ago

@doomscroller

#Australia seems to be considering nuclear power as a way to eliminate fossil fuels.

#decommissioning is one of the costs (in time and risk as well as dollars) that always seems to get forgotten.

cheryanne, 2 months ago

@coffee2Di4 we're not really, it's just a bunch of right wingers (not in government) in hock to the fossil fuel industries who have them in their collective pockets.

doomscroller, 2 months ago

@cheryanne @coffee2Di4 They will be in govt again one day, & they will do it because the main game in Australia for fossil fuels is the exports so they will be able to extract more from our public purse from nuclear just like they are doing with #AUKUS. They will put it off as long as possible of course for their fossil fuel donors but those right wingers are the same people who want nuke weapons & a domestic nuke industry to sponge donations off, as well as established fossil fuel industry

doomscroller, 2 months ago

@cheryanne @coffee2Di4 AS Van Badham said a few years ago, they'll do it, because they're bastards.

doomscroller, 2 months ago

@coffee2Di4
The people pushing nuclear are trying to delay phasing out of fossil fuels. If they actually ever built nuclear it would be about the looting the public purse along the way.