US Studies Centre Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean says AUKUS being “nuclear safe” is in the “front of mind” for the Australian Submarine Agency.
“This is one of those areas where we have to look at the science, and we have to look at the safety record of the partners and the people we’re working with,” he told Sky News Australia.
“So I am incredibly confident that this will be a very safe, very secure nuclear capability in these submarines for the power and energy that they will provide for a critical capability for Australia.”
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The west has been Nuclear safe for many years, time for Australia to wake up, however Labor may chose a Russian / Chinese reactor only then should we be concerned!
The An-Al government sure knows how to waste money .
Nuclear powered subs with no nuclear weapons are not a deterrent,, they're just targets. more of our precious tax dollars wasted ,, going to the armament industry's biggest investors
I hope you didnt build them without the ability to hook up to the grid when you need the power. Yes.. you are going to need the power. When the next decade comes to a close, you will have severe grid failures due to the increasing solar activity, and your already weakened utilization of certain to fail "green" options. It was never Co2. It is all the 6k cycle of the sun. But do no research, ignore the big energy in the system, driving all of the planets, and just ignore this informed comment of what is practical. You dont need war fears.. you need stability of infrastructure before the sun completely resets the whole planet. After that.. you better be in wood boats.
Currently only six countries, all nuclear weapon states, have nuclear-powered subs (see Figure 1). Australia will become the seventh and the first non-nuclear weapons state to acquire nuclear reactors to power submarines. This risks nuclear proliferation and is a breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Another nuclear scare campaign, we have to make sure it is very very very very safe.
The US last lost a nuclear submarine more than 50 years ago.
Aussi subs will be surveillance only – Ghost Eels.
I guess a lot of people would rather wind or solar sub's, sorry it won't happen
aukus is a tragedy for aust
its all about advancing the interests of the usa
Why don't we just give 2 percent of our GDP to Alcapone Protection racket, and don't bother about the subs? At least that way they can't say half way through the botched subs manufactured, oh they seem to be really noisy, we're going to need another 50 billion to sort the problem out. When i hear Military Contract i hear corruption up the kazoo.
AmaZing that SKy supports nuclear with Dutton but questions an essential element to defend Australia….SKY is just a right wing ratbag nut group.
Good luck.
If you want to know how irrelevant AUKUS is, it doesn't even make conversation in US new media. Trump will scrap it.