Topic: Future of Nuclear Power
Country: Australia
Delegate Name: Alexis Filippis
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Australia position papers GLIMUN 2011 committees
As demand for energy increases, our world’s main source of energy, fossil fuel, decreases each day. While the world struggles to provide for the near seven billion people on this planet, we debate the validity and effectiveness of the next large providers of our energy. Although, Abundant with almost one-hundred years worth of uranium to provide for nuclear-power, it has also been featured as strikingly dangerous. Hence the nations of the world ask, is nuclear power worth pursuing as a possible solution to our long search for a “clean”, safe, and effective power source?
Australia has already embraced the idea of nuclear power as a solution to the world’s energy crisis. Having signed and ratified the NPT, Australia is an advocate for its pillars of preventing the future proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as the sharing of peaceful nuclear technology. The obvious advancement of the economy and minimum carbon-dioxide release into the atmosphere will make the use of Nuclease-power a worthwhile utilization globally. Australia strongly encourages nuclear power as a solution to the global energy crisis, though there are still aspects that must be addressed. Major questions arise- where would society dispose of the toxic waste, far from the general population and undisrupted? Where do we intend to store the highly radioactive rods required to generate nuclear power after their use? Further, there is large potential for our nuclear sites to evolve into nuclear weapons, how do we keep nuclear power as a peaceful utility? Lastly, in what ways can we provide ultimate security for populations, in the occurrence of a meltdown at nuclear sites?
Although the NPT has been ratified by most countries, those few that do not abide by such legislation are feared to easily possess nuclear energy as nuclear-power advances. To deal with this issue, the Australian government suggests complete desertion of support and aid to such countries to facilitate the signing of this document. Currently, Australia has also been considered to hold a nuclear-waste-dump in the southern states to ward the worlds accumulation of radioactive waste and nuclear rods. As an immense source of uranium, Australia also promotes the mining of the substance in its regions. Thus, creating thousands of jobs for our citizens and commerce advantages to the country. Overall, Australia is a major vindicator of all nuclear-power sites and advancements.
