The Serious Discussion Thread.

[Richie]

2040 to get reactors up and running,

Yes evidently it takes a whopping decade to actually connect a traditional reactor to a grid. What about a far smaller MNR tho?
Whatever the pros and cons, the big picture, the future of our planet and the 1.5 billion tonnes less polluting greenhouse gases globally every year, has to take precedence.

 

[Grier]

Yes evidently it takes a whopping decade to actually connect a traditional reactor to a grid. What about a far smaller MNR tho?
Whatever the pros and cons, the big picture, the future of our planet and the 1.5 billion tonnes less polluting greenhouse gases globally every year, has to take precedence.

I agree that the limitation of greenhouse gases takes precedence Craig and safe "modular nuclear reactors" (MNRs) sound tempting.
Their production is in its infancy though and not on the market yet, to approved purchasers. We ANZACs qualify!
Maybe we should wait a bit?
And won't our ordered nuclear subs have those MNRs?

About where to store the nuclear radioactive waste, well we're a big brown land with many stable and desolate unoccupied lands.
Of course there would be the usual expected protests.
Drill a hole 5km deep to store it?

 

[Richie]

Drill a hole 5km deep to store it?

Precisely Terry. Then cover it with concrete.

 

[Richie]

We ANZACs qualify!
Maybe we should wait a bit?

Why wait and buy someone elses. We Aussies are innovators here in the 21st Century, so we should now be leaders and no longer followers. The Poms already have the jump on us as they have started to build their first MNR. We cant let them beat us. They will likely need our uranium to build the rest.

 

[Grier]

We already have one old and small functional nuclear reactor OPAL in Lucas Heights in your Sydley Craig.
I wonder if we could make our own MNRs here?
Eventually hopefully, and in the electorate of appropriately named Dickson. Land could be aquired for Uranium storage along with its waste materials.

 

[Richie]

We already have one old and small functional nuclear reactor OPAL in Lucas Heights in your Sydley Craig.

ANSTO mate. It is no more than 5ks from where I live. Was built in the 70s , produces isotopes mainly for medical procedures such as radiation therapy.

 

[Grier]

ANSTO mate. It is no more than 5ks from where I live. Was built in the 70s , produces isotopes mainly for medical procedures such as radiation therapy.

That's fine, and important.

 

[Jessica.]

Since my mums accident I've lost track of everything here, sorry my friends, I will catch up with everything though

 

[Richie]

Iran's new President the moderate Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for.

That is good news. Baffling how the hard-liners permitted his victory to be honest. Guess it proves Iran is a democracy after all.

 

[Richie]

Russian missile attack kills 36, hits children's hospital in Kyiv.​

FU**ERS

 

[Grier]

Russian missile attack kills 36, hits children's hospital in Kyiv.​

FU**ERS

Putin is a despicable War Criminal. May he burn in Hell.

Netanyahu is another such monster!

 

[Grier]

I should also mention the Chinese government sanctioned Cyber criminals just outed by Australia followed by other nations.

The value of stolen accounts, passwords, new tech and IT is in the hundreds of billions yet they have the immoral temerity to reply with transparent and childish denials. Liars caught with their hands in our and others' Cyber tills! Thieves.

Imagine a world or empire governed by such a totalitarian regime. It'd be worse than Orwell's 1984 book.

 

[looker-on]

Russian missile attack kills 36, hits children's hospital in Kyiv.​

FU**ERS

And Peskov cynically denied that Russia had attacked the hospital and claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukrainian anti-missile fire was to blame for Monday's strike.

 

[Richie]

And Peskov cynically denied that Russia had attacked the hospital and claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukrainian anti-missile fire was to blame for Monday's strike.

Yes I read this too.

 

[Grier]

One just can't trust the Russians' words.
They lie and lie all the time.

It is the worst of war crimes to attack a Children's hospital.

I heard they did so to terrorise and demoralize the Ukrainian populace who are already stressed greatly.

 

[Kram81]

“I wouldn’t have picked vice president Trump to be vice president if I didn’t think she was qualified to be president,”

 

[Grier]

Here's something new I just read on the ABC web news page about cheap anti drone drones!

In short: ​

South Korea has announced plans to deploy lasers to shoot down drones sent by North Korea.​

South Korea says it can shoot down North Korean drones using lasers for $2.15 a shot

Officials say the technology will allow them to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles from the North but not all experts are convinced.

www.abc.net.au

Officials say the technology is invisible, noise-free, runs on electricity alone and costs $AU2.15 per shot.
The technology is set to be rolled out this year.



I wonder how long it'll take other nations to develop, get, acquire, buy or steal this technology?
It'd be nice to see Ukraine use it againt Russian drones.
Being a cheap defensive weapon it'll make enemy drones less effective and save lives.
Then I guess the next step is anti anti drones or systems ....

 

[looker-on]

“I wouldn’t have picked vice president Trump to be vice president if I didn’t think she was qualified to be president,”

It's increasingly embarrassing. If he doesn't realise it himself, you have to tell him.

 

[Kram81]

 

[Kram81]

Trump assassination attempt