people have a right to decide what is built in their neighbourhoods if the locals dont want it spuddo has to go back to the drawing board

On average, Americans receive a radiation dose of about 0.62 rem (620 millirem) each year. Half of this dose comes from natural background radiation. Most of this background exposure comes from radon in the air, with smaller amounts from cosmic rays and the Earth itself. (The chart to the right shows these radiation doses in perspective.) The other half (0.31 rem or 310 mrem) comes from man-made sources of radiation, including medical, commercial, and industrial sources. In general, a yearly dose of 620 millirem from all radiation sources has not been shown to cause humans any harm.

An operating nuclear power plant produces very small amounts of radioactive gases and liquids, as well as small amounts of direct radiation. If you lived within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, you would receive an average radiation dose of about 0.01 millirem per year.

Sounds like a good idea but wait -

What if we would have kept our enormous gas reserves for ourselves
instead of giving it away for rock bottom prices to countries overseas?
Would it have been enough to tide us over until
renewables could take their place?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 19^th, 2024 at 4:26pm:


Victoria, Bobby's backyard, actually.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...   

Tell Dutton to get back to me once he repeals all that legislation.

And ask him how he's going to do it in the states.

Bobby. wrote on Jun 19^th, 2024 at 4:20pm:


Let us think about this realistically. I recall hearing about how the Australian government sells China our gas at rock bottom prices. It is for the purpose of paying off the Chinese with a concession, so that the Chinese can buy other Australian exports at better prices for Australian interests.

Liddell in NSW, in the Hunter Valley