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| Southeast Asia |
| Indons to build reactor on volcano |
| 2006-06-06 |
| Indonesia reactor plan 'poses threat' A NUCLEAR reactor to be built in a part of Indonesia prone to earthquakes and volcanoes could pose serious health risks for thousands of people in northern Australia, researchers said today. Harmful substances released into the air in the event of an accident at the proposed nuclear plant on Java would take just days to reach Darwin. Clive Hamilton, director of left-wing think tank the Australia Institute, said the nuclear power plant would be built at the foot of Mt Muria A dormant volcano in the same chain as Mount Merapi currently threatening and right near where the earthquake just killed over 6,000 people on Java's north coast – an area of intense geological instability And Islamofascist activity: Java is the heartland of the growing Islamofascist movement and also of the aggressive Javanese who have terrorised the rest of the archipelago, wrecking East Timor, killing the West Papuans etc.. When plans for a reactor at the site were first revealed in 1993, researchers at the Australian National University found a radiation leak at the plant could pose serious risks to people living in northern Australia, he said. "Although the risks of a major accident are very low, a cloud of radiation blowing over northern Australia would pose a severe danger to public safety and would jeopardise the cattle industries over an enormous area," Dr Hamilton said in a statement. But what the hey, right? The Indos are such GREAT administrators, look how they rushed to help their own people after that earthquake, right? Losers. They didn't even give out the $3 million Australia donated. NOTE: to “moderators” who gave me a final warning about my “racist” comments on Indonesians: when I refer to the 'dirty Indos' I am referring to the Islamofascist Javanese in the ruling class, the army and the TNI who have terrorised and invaded other nations in their archipelago — and who now want a nuclear reactor — and not to the people who happen to live in Indonesia and can be of Hindu, Buddhist, Christian or Moderate Muslim faith. In other words it was not a racist slur, I am slagging off a group of people not defined by race but by politics and ideological outlook. And this volcano, like Mount Merapi, is right in their power-base heartland, the island of Java. By the way these are the same people who didn't have one iota of greatfulness when Americans and Australians helped their countrymen in Aceh after the Tsunami. We saved their lives, gave them money and they spat at our backs as we walked away. They waved placards demanding our heads cut off and rioted after the Danish Cartoons Controversy. These are the same people who John Howard invited to rewrite our refugee policy specifically because they were angry we took refugees fleeing their cruelty and aggression in West Papua. I bring to your attention the Islamofascist war does not just exist in the Middle East but also in Africa and South East Asia. |
| Posted by:Anon1 |
| #5 I bring to your attention the Islamofascist war does not just exist in the Middle East but also in Africa and South East Asia. Thank you very much for stating that as most if not all Americans are ignorant of this FACT. |
| Posted by: bk 2006-06-06 09:42 |
| #4 anon1, you need to find another phrase that better conveys your meaning. How about "dirty Islamofascists"? Your point that the threat isn't confined to the middle east is a good one - and one that regular Rantburgers understand full well. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-06-06 08:09 |
| #3 It's difficult to see how anything short of a truly massive eruption would result in radioactive release, and were such an eruption to occur, the additional radioactivity for the plants uranium would be a tiny fraction of the radioactivity of the magma. Everywhere has earthquakes. The biggest recorded earthquake in the continental USA was in Missouri and there are several nuclear power stations in the region. BTW, Anon1 I agree with your sentiments moreorless but the word 'dirty' doesn't have the same meaning of dishonest and deceitful to an American, who would view the word simply as a racist pejorative. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-06-06 04:48 |
| #2 An accident at the proposed nuclear plant on Java would take just days to reach Darwin. I wouldn't trust the Indons to run a sweet (lolly/candy) shop properly, but Hamilton is just making alarmist stuff up with the above. There's this thing called the Intertropical Covergence Zone that continually draws air into the tropics. Radiation might reach Oz in months through the upper atmosphere, but it won't be here in days. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-06-06 04:28 |
| #1 Why do they want to build it there instead of somewhere safer? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-06 01:40 |