Small Town Divided: Should We Build A Nuclear Reactor?

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  • čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
  • Victoria's Latrobe Valley is one of the opposition's proposed locations for a nuclear reactor, and while some locals would welcome the investment in the region, others say they would leave if it went ahead.
    #AusPol #Nuclear #PeterDutton

Komentáře • 41

  • @awc900
    @awc900 Před 8 dny +10

    I grew up about 8km from one. Nothing to worry about and in fact less radiation than you get from a coal fired plant. Nobody's going to put spent fuel rods in your backyard.

  • @arclux
    @arclux Před 8 dny +6

    I'm fine with it.

  • @robertdwyer1784
    @robertdwyer1784 Před 8 dny +5

    bring it on.

  • @user-gy4gf5cx9b
    @user-gy4gf5cx9b Před 7 dny +2

    We live near one in the Sutherland Shire without it you would not have the medication to fight Cancer and it has been there over 60 years and they are everywhere overseas 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @mitchregal
    @mitchregal Před 7 dny +1

    I must say it’s rather hilarious when people say we don’t need more “dirty energy” if people did there homework on modern nuclear technology they would realise how clean it is, and how far safety has come

  • @_Sammy_J
    @_Sammy_J Před 7 dny +1

    Renewables don't store energy at all. I hope people realize this. Because the people I see insisting on using renewables are also people that have no idea how they generate power.

  • @kingdomgirl4life
    @kingdomgirl4life Před 8 dny +4

    4:21 Fukushima all I have to say Fukushima

    • @mariahewitt9787
      @mariahewitt9787 Před 8 dny

      Chernobyl...still radioactive..

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 8 dny +2

      @@mariahewitt9787 Name just 10 of the hundreds of safe nuclear power plants that have been operating for decades?

    • @steverogers9507
      @steverogers9507 Před 8 dny +2

      @@awc900 Google has it listed . Educate yourself.

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 8 dny

      @@steverogers9507 You educate yourself. Go read Wikipedia. Some power plant workers were injured but no adverse health effects among non-worker Fukushima residents have been documented that are directly attributable to radiation exposure from the accident, according to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.[

    • @filipporiva1864
      @filipporiva1864 Před 8 dny +3

      fourth biggest earthquake ever recorded, yet 0 deaths due to radiation.....

  • @riordan39
    @riordan39 Před 6 dny +1

    I think they should build heaps more wind generators in Canberra. There is lots unstoppable hot wind there. Problem solved.

  • @gabrielleshaw4865
    @gabrielleshaw4865 Před 8 dny +3

    Im from the valley. Arent We're on a fault line. How exactly would that work?

  • @Chrisplumbgas
    @Chrisplumbgas Před 7 dny +1

    Albo is finished, it’s gonna happen.

  • @kreagle
    @kreagle Před 8 dny +2

    Where’s the closest body of water to La Trobe nuclear plant? How do you cool the reactor when a meltdown occurs?

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 8 dny +3

      If it's an SMR, it can't happen as the fuel rods drop down. Anyway the Three Mile Island incident exposed people to less radiation than you would pick up flying from Melbourne to Brisbane.

    • @filipporiva1864
      @filipporiva1864 Před 8 dny +2

      what are you talking about? cooling in a NPP is used in the condenser/cooling tower to make power, its main purpose is produce electricity not melting down

    • @kreagle
      @kreagle Před 7 dny

      The majority of nuclear reactors are built next to large bodies of water. This is primarily due to the need for substantial amounts of cooling water to dissipate the heat generated during the nuclear fission process. Water from nearby lakes, rivers, or oceans is used in the cooling systems of these reactors.
      it is generally estimated that around 75-85% of nuclear reactors worldwide are situated near large bodies of water. This proximity helps ensure a reliable supply of cooling water, which is crucial for both the operation and safety of nuclear power plants.
      Fukushima reactor now has a twenty kilometre no go zone around it and flushed discarded toxic water into the ocean after its disaster.
      It’s not a matter if a disaster occurs. It’s when.

    • @filipporiva1864
      @filipporiva1864 Před 7 dny

      @@kreagle it’s not a matter of if you die in a car crash, it’s a matter of when. It’s not a matter of if your gas stove explodes, it’s a metter of when. It’s not a matter if you inhale the safe fumes of coal power plant in Australia and get cancer, it’s a matter of when.
      You’re an hypochondriac and a hypocritical one at that, you’re Australian I assume right? You guys use coal which is thousands of times more deadly than nuclear and even accounting accidents nuclear is the safest source of electricity in history. Also the water is not toxic, it’s less radioactive than the ocean they’re discharging it into, but keep on breathing coal fumes, those sure are safe and it’s not as if CO2 is known for acidifying ocean.
      If you care about safety and accident you choose the safest source, if you care about the environment you choose the least polluting one.

  • @alancotterell9207
    @alancotterell9207 Před 5 dny

    'We should address issues as they arise, AND NOT on the basis of what might happen' with the reactor ?

  • @sonjakozman1699
    @sonjakozman1699 Před 8 dny

    NIMBI!!!!
    such a big backyard, though

  • @kreagle
    @kreagle Před 8 dny +1

    An accident won’t happen until it happens. Titanic, original & tourist vessel, Exxon Valdez and aircraft doors to name a few. Very much a black swan event.

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 7 dny +1

      So you don't sail, you don't ship oil and you don't fly?

    • @kreagle
      @kreagle Před 7 dny +1

      Not if the consequences are nuclear meltdown or nuclear waste sitting in a cave for thousands of years.

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 7 dny +1

      @@kreagle Why would you leave it sitting in cave when it can be reprocessed and reused?

    • @kreagle
      @kreagle Před 7 dny +1

      @@awc900 it’s not 100% recyclable. The toxic waste is active for thousands of years.

    • @awc900
      @awc900 Před 7 dny +1

      @@kreagle So is the waste from renewables.

  • @MegaRyan123456
    @MegaRyan123456 Před 5 dny

    I have no issue with nuclear power!
    But think what the liberals did with the NBN imagine the same people running building nuclear power stations 🤣

  • @kronicpain7357
    @kronicpain7357 Před 8 dny +2

    Dutton's b.s bandaid. It will never get built.