It found the most suitable sites were close to major centres of demand and preferably in coastal areas to ensure easy access to water.
"The power station will be the first of 20 atomic plants costing more than $2,000 million to be built in Australia by 1990.That was the blueprint that nearly became a reality.There was a darker side to the Jervis Bay reactor too, with evidence revealed in a 2002 ABC documentary, Fortress Australia, that the 500-megawatt fast breeder reactor was chosen due to its ability to generate weapons-grade plutonium for use in an Australian nuclear weapon.
"The only way in which we can protect ourselves, I believe, is by having not machine guns and rifles, but the most sophisticated weapons that we can devise," Baxter said in the documentary. Associate Professor Wayne Reynolds from the University of Newcastle told ABC podcast The Signal how Gorton pushed for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay.
Not suggesting Australian societary with its substandard PoliticalMonarchist profiteering could achieve scientific excellence. We need to realise exercises in high tech, and all it's backup plans to countermand high risk incidents, are critical in other areas of science. smh
Monsters.
1960s, a plan was launched to transform of NSW coast into a major industrial hub, with the country's first nuclear power &steel Not now people r more proactive to protest Nuke power is very costly $17bils n up InUS a new plant has been delayed 17yrs
Good article, but McMahon cancelled the reactor, not Whitlam in 1972; the Gorton government signed the NPT, not Whitlam (Whitlam ratified the NPT)
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