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Talking Headlines - June 2009

Victoria's Lake Boga gets the planet's nuclear waste dump

June 12th 2009 02:16

The location of the planet's nuclear waste dump has been chosen. The ABC'S CATALYST PROGRAM LAST NIGHT NAMED THE SWAN HILL/ LAKE BOGA AREA AS HAVING THE ONLY GRANITE IN THE WORLD THAT CAN CONTAIN NUCLEAR WASTE. HOW DO THEY KNOW? WELL, THEY DON'T. THEY SAID THE GRANITE HAD ALREADY HELD RADIOACTIVITY FOR PERHAPS MILLIONS OF YEARS THEREFORE IT WILL BE FINE TO TO CREATE THE DUMP WITHIN THE GRANITE.

THAT DOESN'T FOLLOW. The radioactivity that the granite contained was miniscule and was from a small amount of uranium. When uranium was discovered there in the fifties it was such a tiny amount no one bothered mining it.

There is no telling how the granite will react to enormous amounts of nasty waste for no one knows how the human element will effect it. They will short-cut - the way humans do - and store corruptly, and no one is sure how waste artificially applied to the granite will respond. It may be fine to believe in scientists' THEORIES but remember they have all been wrong on the storage of nuclear waste so far.

I published a prophetic novel, THE DEVIL'S TRAP ... set to catch friends (Amazon 2006 on), which claims Australia is going to be the planet's nuclear waste dump. Presciently enough it speculates that the Swan Hill/ Lake Boga area will be the location of choice - the CIA had been monitoring the area by satellite for close to a decade.

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AUSTRALIA CLOSER TO TAKING PLANET'S NUCLEAR WASTE

June 2nd 2009 07:21

A new clue that Australia is to become the nuclear dumping ground for the planet. US energy secretary, Steven Chu, has eliminated funding to build a nuclear waste store. This is strange because their waste storage in Washington State is leaking into the Columbia river and cannot be stopped. They have tried single-skin steel containers, double skin containers, ceramics, removal of the radio pollution from the water flowing into the river, all to no avail.

Chu says he will back the building of fast neutron reactors that may burn long-lived waste. He has no idea if it will or not and neither does anyone else. This is all very cavalier when addressing the nuclear waste problem. While here in Australia a former prime minister has advocated that we (Australia) takes the planet's nuclear waste, as did a former trade union leader who is now the minister for power. It's most unusual for a a politician to get a cabinet posting that controls the very thing he is promoting.

The problem with the waste here is that the oldest human structure on the planet are the Egyptian pyramids and they are only eight thousand years old. When the English first discovered them they had no idea what they were used for. Imagine the condition of nuclear containers after 300,000 years. Would anyone know what they were for? Of course the discoverers would break them open Indiana Jones style, say in twenty thousand years. Are you getting the scenario?