Nuclear Power

There has been a lot of buzz in the news here this week about Nuclear Power. Australia has finally decided that they need to generate more power, and so is looking to build some Nuclear power plants, 5 in fact. Unfortunatally its a classic case of "Not in my back yard mate!". Now this is quite funny because a shit load of the worlds uranium actually gets dug up out of the Ozzie outback. The Government even proposed taking back some of the old uranium to store it in the outback.

When I first came to Australia I thought that they had nuclear power already, but apart from a small test reactor in Sydney, the whole place is powered by coal or gas. The funny thing is that we came from New Zealand, where most of the electricity is generated by Hydro, (clean & cheep) but our power bill here is less than a 3rd of what it was in NZ.
Anyway, back to the nuclear stuff. How stuff works has a neat artical that explains how nuclear power plants work. It also has a link to a BBC program on the Chenobal explosion.