Australian Government Backs 8 Mobile REACTORS

1.  Australia's Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's tentative nuclear reactor vision from the 2030's is far less firm than Australian Prime Minister Albanese's international planning for 8 nuclear power reactors under the AUKUS submarine Agreement. Albanese plans 2 or 3 reactors in the 2030s and 5 or 6 in the 2040s. The 8 reactors will mainly be mobile but land based when in the naval base in southern Perth, Western Australia. Each of these naval reactors use 95+% bomb grade HEU. This is vastly more than 4% LEU used in the normal land electricity reactors being proposed by Dutton. The Labor supported mobile nuclear reactors may be more prone to nuclear disasters (if they collide with large ships or experience other accidents) than totally land based reactors. 

2. The Albanese government is also planning High Level (HEU) Nuclear Waste dump. This will probably be situated at the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in central Australia ie. on the Federal Government defence land promised by Albanese. Labor has already agreed to a High Level Nuclear Waste Dump because the AUKUS agreement stipulates Australia must dispose of used submarine reactors and other HEU highly irradiated parts within Australia. US and UK HEU might also be permanently stored at Australia's future High Level Nuclear Waste dump. Albanese has also agreed to a low level (LEU) nuclear waste dump to be built around 2027 on naval defence land just south of Perth.

3. The Albanese Government has made a big thing of announcing possible future regulations of supermarkets but not yet achieved anything. The regulations first need to be passed by Parliament but Dutton says he won’t support passage because the proposal might not reduce prices for we consumers. This concerns making an Australia’s Food and Grocery Code of Conduct compulsory against supermarkets (Woolworths, Coles and Aldi).  Supermarkets allegedly punish farmers who complain about the low prices supermarkets pay for farmers’ produce. Supermarkets allegedly do not pass these low prices onto we consumers. The proposal might not end any alleged price fixing by supermarkets. Also the earliest date the reform could go into effect would probably be 1 July 2025.