Australia does not have nuclear power stations, and it does not have nuclear weapons.I remember having lessons and debates on it in high school, many years ago. My favorite science teacher was
Australia does not have nuclear power stations, and it does not have nuclear weapons.
I remember having lessons and debates on it in high school, many years ago. My favorite science teacher was dead against either use of nuclear technology.
One of the most interesting arguments I remember hearing was that the technology developments that make nuclear power more efficient would also help make nuclear bombs more efficient.
Fiji is much the same as Australia, and it has even ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, along with over 70 other nations.
Both Pacific nations, Australia and Fiji share a historical remembrance of France’s 193 nuclear tests conducted between 1966 to 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia.
It wasn’t a hugely popular program for residents of the southern hemisphere. And in New Zealand in 1985, the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French secret service agents to prevent it from participating in an anti-nuclear protest. One crewmember was killed.
Still times change, technologies develop and new opportunities arise.
This week, Maritime Reporter covered news of a new vessel design by Australian ship design group Seatransport and Houston-based Deployable Energy, in collaboration
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