Nukes In Our Future

As I said last October in ‘A Technological Answer to Global Climate Change’ (www.mckeanpark.com.au), ". . the likelihood is that we will shortly be debating (the use on nuclear energy)". And so it has transpired. With what seems a sudden realisation that global warming is a massive problem that will not await Australia’s dawdling approach, the government has set up, with unbelievable haste, the inevitable inquiry to precede a "debate". Considering all this comes about nine years after Australia signed up to the Kyoto Protocol there will be many who believe this move is by no means before time.

The outcome of the inquiry and, whatever debate follows it, are of a course unknown. It would be difficult, however, not to conclude that a nuclear future now confronts all of us and that it will commence almost immediately. As the papers published on this website have said or implied often enough, coal is not the fuel of the future. In addition, the coal industry has taken far too long to