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Thread #68473   Message #1160757
Posted By: freda underhill
13-Apr-04 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Do you live near a nuclear plant?
Subject: RE: BS: Do you live near a nuclear plant?
I once interviewed a Czech former prisoner who said that after Chrnobyl, the radiated food had been distributed to prisons all over Europe, for the inmates to eat.

We have a nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in southern Sydney. Around 1975 the reactor was described as being technologically obsolete. In 1997 the Oz Government announced that a new reactor would be built and that it would still be at Lucas Heights.

A Senate Inquiry into the Contract for a New Reactor – May 2001, found that the Australian Government had failed to establish a conclusive or compelling case for the new reactor. Recommendation—Chapter 11, p. 224

The project to build a new reactor on the old site is going ahead.
The surprise winning tender came from INVAP of Argentina. As it has no experience of building a reactor in any advanced country the choice came as a surprise. Its competitors were from Germany, France and Canada. Was it the cheapest offer? Who knows, it is a State Secret. It is deemed to be 'not in the National Interest' to release its content. The contract, for around $320 million, was signed without anyone seeing a technical specification. … more at
http://ssec.org.au/Nuclear.html