They've resuscitated the plan for South Australia as the world's nuclear waste dump

John Carlson, long involved in Australia's nuclear policy, is a firm nuclear power supporter. He calls for "a multilaterally-based uranium enrichment centre in Australia". Queensland Businessman Martin Nicholson joins the fray with the contemporary tactic of attacking renewable energy and rubbishing nuclear critics..

As in previous decades, overseas nuclear publicists are a big part of the push. The most active is the USA's Breakthrough Institute with its nuclear advertorial film "Pandora's Promise shown around Australia late last year. Nuclear propagandists such as nuclear physicist Wade Allison (UK) and nuclear engineer Rod Adams (USA) publish pro nuclear articles, and/or comments in Australian online journals.

Still the heartland of Australia's nuclear fuel cycle promotion is Adelaide

Alone among Australian climate academics, Adelaide University's Professor Barry Brook promotes nuclear with a propaganda website Brave New Climate, ostensibly about climate, but it's all nuclear. Brook's Twitter account @decarboniseSA hosts tweets from very active pro nuclear tweeters. I suspect that these tweeters are either paid to tweet by the nuclear industry, or employed in a nuclear related industry.

Tom Wigley PhD mathematical physics, University of Adelaide, and Ben Heard of Think Climate Consulting very actively promote the nuclear industry across many media platforms.

In Adelaide, Professor Stefan Simons pushes the USA military connection, and the desirability of nuclear submarines for Australia. Simons' research at University College London's Adelaide campus, is funded by BHP. Back in London, lecturers in UCL are not impressed with the pro nuclear bias in his research: "Senior lecturers have spoken out against University College London (UCL) Australia's pro-nuclear, pro-shale gas research, claiming that strong industry ties make the idea it is independent "laughable".'

Flinders University's Dr David Palmer comments:

The issue is processing uranium for nuclear power that then can be used for defence

You have to understand this in terms of in terms of Adelaide, -it's a military industrial intelligence complex.

Simons is connected to the University College of London but basically he's a front man for business interests, We can clearly question what he is doing given the fact that he's getting funding from indirect corporate sources.

At Flinders University, Professor Pamela Sykes runs a program funded by USA's Department of Energy, researching the proposition that low dose ionising radiation is good for health

Business circles in Adelaide

Business South Australia has just come out for uranium enrichment, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) and nuclear waste dumping. "The first state in Australia which breaks through and builds a micro-power plant will be on to a winner," said Business SA chief executive Nigel McBride.

There's another bunch of Adelaide business people now enthusing about the nuclear fuel cycle for South Australia: