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Nuclear Engineer and former Miss America Grace Stank has entered into a serious debate over a 10 -day national visit to Australia over his future energy policy, confirming the benefits of nuclear power in a country where it is about 30 For 30 years has been banned.
The speaking tour is a familiar area for 22 -year -old former Beauty Queen, who It said Nuclear engineering studied as “Flex”, but now he works for US energy giant Bridge as a spokesperson and his nuclear team.
Its recent Arrival comes at a critical time in Australia, months before a national election that the opposition can put in power to the Liberal Party, as well as its promises to build seven nuclear power plants – the current Labor Government’s renewable energy and By promoting a plan to rely on gas.
For several days, Stank has been talking to hundreds of Australian residents, a charitable organization established by the 18 -year -old Will Shekel, in programs organized by the Nuclear for Australia (NFA), which has a wealthy supporter of Australia. The nuclear businessman has received the support.
Most of the conversation, the mob participated well, but not all the members of the audience were impressed with the message of Stank.
When she began to make a speech in Brisbane last Friday, a woman from the audience started screaming, and became the first of several people going out of the room when the other participants encouraged and shocked. A woman was physically pushed by a security guard, since then she has formally lodged a complaint.
Stink said, reflecting an experienced pages on the crowd of Brisbane. “Do you know what? I respect people because they are using their voices, “he described the temple as” the most vocal experience “.
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People against nuclear power say it is very expensive, very unsafe and very slow to replace Australia’s coal -fired power plants, which will need to be burning for many years until the nuclear plant arrives online.
The fact that people are even talking Proposal This shows that in three years, when voters went to the voters for the last time, they have chosen climate -friendly candidates and the pro -renewable policy of the Labor.
Now, for the first time in decades, nuclear power has returned to the electoral agenda, at the same time creating a reaction in rural areas against renewable energy projects, which says some people say the fields are destroyed. They are provoking the forests and distributing communities.
Australia banned nuclear energy in 1998 to get approval to facilitate the country’s first and only nuclear research, which is still operating in southern Sydney.
The elections held before mid -May will see the government changes, renewable energy, as well as seven nuclear reactors built in five states for power supply. In this direction, a bold change that will not only require a change in the federal law, but also the amendment. Laws in the states where premiere oppose nuclear power.
According to the plan proposed by the Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton, nuclear reactors will be financed by $ 331 billion Australia ($ 206 billion) in public money and the first can operate by 2035.
Both predictions are considered less by the Government of the country’s Independent Science Agency – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The renewable media says it is still the cheapest and most effective way for Australia to reach pure zero by 2050.
The founder of the NFA, Sheke, wants the nuclear ban to be lifted, pointing to a request that began two years ago, which has quietly submitted more than 80,000 signatures.
“I think we need to get away from fossil fuel. Gas is the fuel. So, I think that if we want to be able to withdraw from these sources, nuclear energy is something that will be important.
Shekel met with Stink in 28 climate talks in the United Arab Emirates in 2023, attended by Miss America, while a degree in nuclear engineering at Wisconsin Madison University. She says Australia is “already a kind of late” for nuclear energy, “so, you can start now.”
“I believe a strong grid needs both renewable sources and nuclear energy,” he said, referring to the “base load” energy source argument that does not rely on unexpected weather Is
This argument has been challenged by experts around the world, who say that the need for “base load” is an outdated concept, and that stability can be achieved from other sources, including batteries.
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Although the nuclear has dominated the recent conversation about Australia’s future energy mix, the permanent rimor of dissatisfaction with rural areas is increasing during the rapid rollout of renewable energy projects.
According to the Clean Energy Council, with 44 storage projects, 85 renewable power generation projects are underway in Australia.
In the past two years, the number of applications on Change Dot RG that opposes renewable energy projects, from 14 to 14 to 2024 in 2024 – with Facebook groups where communities protest stories and updates There are collected.
Advance, a conservative campaign group that says it works to counter “rising politicians and elite activist groups”, claiming that they are promoting a 48 -minute documentary in which these farmers are The “unrestricted stories” have been heard whose “rapid rollout of winds has increased life and solar plans.”
Morro Banson Rural lives close to the proposed site of a large battery storage plant in Haisldin, Queensland, which is currently undergoing a council approval process. He is in favor of renewable sources. “They have a place,” he said, “but” you can argue that some of them are in the wrong place. ”
He and his wife Joey moved from Sydney to the area five years ago and hoped that peaceful retirement would be enjoyed. But now they are considering selling their homes in the event of fire or floods, from the battery system, the consistency of the land and water, and fearing potential pollution. “We do not want to live across the road like this,” said Banson.
Michelle Hunt has more instant problems with the construction of a solar farm along with “Paradise of Paradise”, which he bought in Rural Queensland about 20 years ago, in Jin Gen City.
She says that a renewable energy company destroyed her fence without any permission and replaced it with a wire “jail fence”, which against the previous deal to hide the panel in neighboring solar farms behind the trees. The violation took place. Now they are in full view of the house they intended to build. “Let’s face it, we are living with industrial power installation,” he said.
In the rural areas where the opposition is forming renewable projects, it is a fertile land for Shekel and its nuclear campaign. He has already visited some areas allotted for power stations under the liberal proposal. And while they say that the NFA is not politically linked to any major party, it accepts that it is working for the community to bring together the community.
He said, “I think nuclear energy itself gives itself a position as a solution to some of these communities because of the low use of the land.” “And for the communities that are anxious for jobs but do not see renewable sources fully providing them for them, having a nuclear plant can be a good solution.”
The former Miss America was part of a plan to increase support for nuclear power in Australian women, which, according to a survey, is less excited about men.
According to many people who participated in sessions in different states, the audience was dominated by old men, many of whom did not need to persuade.
Prior to the Brisbane room, protesters, Jane McKinkol, told CNN that they had been launching an anti -nuclear campaign since the 1980s. He said he “made sure that this foolishness does not end.”
“This is the only way to rotate the fossil fuel industry for a while, and we cannot afford to do so,” he said. “You can see how the climate is falling around us. Look at Los Angeles. The poor people there lost everything.
Others said panels – which included local nuclear experts – made public and did not reach the number of issues related to their area, as if potential tensions say, on the Nuclear Power Plant resources in the Victoria’s Litterobi Valley. Can be
“There is no literal water for the nuclear power plant.” Adrian Cosograph, a member of the Valley Community Community Advocacy Group Vice, who participated in the Melbourne Talk, said, “The current allocation is already committed to me.”
“Australians know that nuclear power exists. Okay. It is not suitable for here. There is such an argument,” he said.
David Hood, a civil and environmental engineer who participated in the Brisbane Talk, said: “Renewable sources are currently working. We can’t wait for more cost and dangerous nuclear energy 10 to 10 to 20 years.
Stank and Shekel on Wednesday brought parliamentary briefing to the Parliament House, Canberra to politicians and assistants in the political arena.
Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz was not surprisingly attended, he had already dreamed of his political rival’s nuclear proposal “madness” and “fantasy, to delay the real action on climate change.”
Stanak says success at the end of the tour this week “will know that I have influenced not only one person’s lives, but also many people.”
Albanian will hope that many Australians are not convinced of his argument, which can lead to leadership changes on a road thorns, which some say, even more hot planets. Can
