Tag: nuclear

The Coalition Nuclear Policy is a Fake

Arena Online

Darrin Durant, Jim Falk, Jim Green

17 Apr 2025

The nuclear proposal is at best a facade, lacking essential content but acting to distract attention from division within the Coalition on emissions reductions.

Peter Dutton’s Fissional Politics

Arena Quarterly no. 21

Dave Sweeney

Mar 2025

The Coalition is converting nuclear policy to culture war

Australia’s technocratic drive to nuclear ignorance

Arena Online

Sybilla George

11 Dec 2024

The Albanese government’s silence on the presence of nuclear weapons aboard B-52s at RAAF Tindal regurgitates the US’s policy so as to skirt their democratic responsibility to inform the public of potential nuclear escalation.

Fusion Edgelords: Climate-Energy Futures at COP28

Arena Online

Darrin Durant

8 Dec 2023

Fusion is both thirty years away and will always be thirty years away, and that disappointment needs to be constantly massaged.

Black mist across the desert

Arena Online

Nic Maclellan

15 Oct 2023

Yami Lester was ten years old when a British atomic weapon, codenamed Totem 1, was detonated at Emu Field on 15 October 1953. The wind carried dust into his eyes. Four years later, he lost all sight.

Nuclear Frisson: On ‘Oppenheimer’

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Richard King

31 Jul 2023

What concerns me is that Oppenheimer, far from shaking us out of our slumber, is unable to grasp the radical nature of what happened in the New Mexico desert or connect what happened there to our current techno-scientific moment.

One Step in a Chain Reaction: how a Grassroots movement stopped nuclear in Australia

Arena Quarterly no. 13

Dave Sweeney

Mar 2023

Australia would look very different if it wasn’t for sustained intergenerational effort to resist the nuclear option.

Nuclear After-Life: From tragedy to farce, the claims of a nuclear renaissance

Arena Quarterly no. 13

Darrin Durant

Mar 2023

Non-hydro renewables have now overtaken nuclear power, with wind and solar alone reaching 10.2 per cent of global gross power generation in 2021.

AUKUS, Nuclear Technology and Australia’s Future

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John Hinkson

6 Apr 2023

To survive in this region Australia has to change its spots profoundly. It needs a form of cultural re-generation, in significant combination with its First Peoples, to justify its presence outside of the strategies of colonial power.

Greens Parties Go Nuclear: Will it happen here? An emerging shift internationally reveals a technocratic logic

Guy Rundle

6 Apr 2023

The political Green movement, founded in Tasmania then Germany, is now a half-century old, and is changing with the deeper social and cultural changes that are occurring underneath it.

Looming Catastrophe: Nuclear Threats in the Ukraine-Russian War

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Guy Rundle

10 Mar 2022

Just as atomic and sub-atomic technologies reach into every corner of reality to transform it unceasingly, so too the US post-Second World War empire, powered by notions of a universal idea of right, bound up in individualism, capital and technophilia, seeks to transform and occupy any alternative source of power, locality and difference.

Fusion Power: Big Energy fuses with Big Spin

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Darrin Durant

24 Feb 2022

On 9 February 2022 researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion reactor, based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the United Kingdom, announced that ‘JET produced a total of 59 Megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period’, during which JET ‘averaged a fusion power (i.e., energy per […]