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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by elgenie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:26AM (#19594818)
Australia has huge amount of unusable dessert on the interior of the continent that could easily be used to store spent nuclear fuel.

It's honestly nuts that they use carbon-emitting fossil fuels at all given their nuclear, solar, and wind potential.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by perilunar on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:25AM (#19595136)
And some of that desert is already mildly radioactive, due to a. uranium deposits, and b. atmospheric nuclear tests in the 50s.
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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by aryehof on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:07AM (#19594944)
A colonialist perspective, would see it as "unusable desert" ready for nuclear waste. The original owners, Australian Aborigines, would certainly not.
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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by elgenie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:35AM (#19595008)
Population density argues otherwise [0]. The aboriginal population of Australia pre-colonization is estimated to be around 750K spread out over nearly 3 million square miles.

There may be differing perspectives about how much of it is unusable, but the debate is between "most of the continent" and "even more than that". A nuclear waste storage facility in an unvisited portion of the outback would rank rather low on the list of bad things happening to the indigenous people of Australia, wouldn't you say?

[0] https://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/population.html

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