Monday 9 November 2009

The Nuclear Future

Of course we should be developing nuclear power, and applying clean coal technology, for reasons including (though far from restricted to) the simple and indispensable principle that we should never be beholden to any foreign country, regardless of which one it is. This island stands on coal. And we can obtain uranium from the Canadians, who are not foreigners, but Her Majesty’s Loyal Subjects. There are also several other Commonwealth possibilities. We do not need either Arab oil or Russian gas. So we must, if necessary, force ourselves to do without them.

Our natural alliance with Russia is based on something far deeper, namely her pre-eminence within the Slavic defence of our Biblical-Classical civilisation. Our unnatural alliance with the Gulf despots, however, really is based on oil. We need to return to the true, good and beautiful alliance in the Russian case. And we need to discard the false, bad and ugly alliance in the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Emirati case. Indeed, by doing the latter, we shall be doing the former: participating in the defence of the True West.

As we shall be by giving our people real jobs - abiding, and with decent wages and working conditions - both in coal and in nuclear energy.

3 comments:

  1. We don't have a natural alliance with Russia. If nothing else, their tendency to murder political opponents in our capital city by means of radioactive poisons suggests a lack of respect not only for us, but also for Biblical-Classical civilisation.

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  2. Ralph Nader of all people convinced me with his conservative, anti-statist argument against nuclear power.

    Here he is quoted in an old post of mine titled Atomic Corporate Socialism as observing that "the atomic power industry does not give up... as long as Uncle Sam can be dragooned to be its subsidizing, immunizing partner;" i.e. nuclear energy would be impossible in a free economy. More:

    "For sheer brazenness, however, the atomic power lobbyists know few peers. They remember, as the previous Atomic Energy Commission told them decades ago, that one significant meltdown could contaminate 'an area the size of Pennsylvania.'

    "They know that no insurance companies will insure them at any price, which is why the Price-Anderson Act hugely limits nuclear plants’ liability in case of massive damages to people, property, land and water."

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  3. Wietri, if you believe that, then you'll believe absolutely anything. Even our own Government now barely pretends to.

    But The Western Confucian, I'm all in favour of using State action to conserve or restore, for example, national sovereignty, or paternal authority.

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