On the subject of Fukushima
It is not the purpose of this site to undertake the detailed analysis of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear accident. That is being done more than adequately elsewhere. However I would not want anyone to...
View ArticleGuest Post from Fukushima Province: The Issue of Trust
It’s with pleasure that I introduce the first ever guest post to Decarbonise SA by my good friend, Nic Bartlett. Nic is an old mate of mine from undergraduate university days. A fellow South Australian...
View ArticleOf Leaders, Liars and Leaves
A few interesting things have come across my desk this week which I would like to highlight in brief for their relevance to the DSA mission. LEADERS The B&W mPower Small Modular Reactor, which I...
View ArticleFukushima- minute by minute
“I’m not playing pretend about how I felt reading this report. It was, at times, confronting for someone asking Australians to give consideration to nuclear.” A very important document came to light...
View Article10 questions for Richard Broinowski
Tonight I attended a presentation by Richard Broinowski, who was promoting his book to be released this year on the Fukushima nuclear power incident and its implications for Japan. It is as yet...
View ArticleHow close did Japan really get to a widespread #nuclear disaster? Cross post...
As we approach the first anniversary of the Sendai quake and tsunami, I am steeling myself for the inevitable blanket commentary of a nuclear disaster that never was, while we roundly forget about the...
View ArticleFukushima’s long-lived outrage is no nuclear accident
What is the risk from a nuclear power plant melt-down? If you reach for the well known formula of Risk being the product of Likelihood and Consequence…then you are missing something big. That formula...
View ArticleEnvironmentalism in the mud: responding to Jim Green’s attack on Barry Brook
“This has got to stop, and it stops when people start taking a stand… The schism in environmentalism over nuclear power is now well underway. It is sad that the other side seem to have decided in their...
View ArticleWhen Wright is Wrong- Article from Climate Spectator
Now, I have been guilty of the odd pun in article titles in the past (thanks to George Pell and Jim Green) but on this occasion, I swear it wasn’t me!!! Climate Spectator did it. I was put out by a...
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