Makes ya proud to be Australian!

AUSTRALIA and INTERNATIONAL

Makes ya proud to be Australian! The latest computer worm success - an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - featured Australian band AC/DC, making computers play “Thunderstruck” at full volume in the middle of the night.

In Australia and in UK and in USA - a big push by the nuclear lobby to sell the public on a new gimmick. It’s a kind of alchemy. The plan is to turn plutonium into gold, and involves nuclear reprocessing, and new PRISM nuclear reactors (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module). Barry Brook and Robin Batterham, (Chief technologist for Rio Tinto) have been spruiking Small Modular Nuclear Reactros and "fast breeder" reactors for Australia. Meanwhile in UK and USA, Richard Branson (of Virgin fame) and Bill Gates are also promoting these technologies , (which still exist only as blueprints). But they are being touted as a supposed solution to Britain’s huge and worrying nuclear waste problem.

Still in the news - BHP Billiton and the planned new uranium megamine at Olympic Dam. The grand effort of the Lizard’s Revenge anti-nuclear protest wound up. Dr Helen Caldicott ’s talk at Roxby Downs was attended by a few brave souls, (under the watchful eyes of BHP Billiton’s film crew.)

But the Olympic Dam project has been newsworthy for a different reason - doubts about its future. South Australia’s Treasurer revealed that the project would have little impact on the State’s revenues, whether or not it goes ahead. Meanwhile the engineering company, Jacobs Engineering, that has been doing the feasibility studies, is now laying off workers, realising that the project’s future is in doubt.

Japan’s anti-nuclear protests continue, and grow in numbers, while the government gets anxious about coming elections. 51 religious leaders call for an end to nuclear power. Revelations that some Fukushima workers have been wearing lead shields over their radiation dose monitors - to produce a lower radiation reading.

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Christina Macpherson
Antinuclear Australia
www.antinuclear.net
www.nuclear-news.net