william cogswell wrote:
On my way back from spending 3 wks in Sydney (courtesy of the company
)
the Quantas flight had a hr. long story on the aussie nuke program
from the
50's with the brits to the early 70's on their own. From what i could
tell
they have already done a lot of the ground work for a nuke if they so
desire.

This was a doco called Fortess Australia. It's being repeated this
Sunday (20/7) at 5pm on ABC (Australian Broadcasing Corporation, that
is). On the whole it's a good piece, but does contain some major errors
about the purpose of the Jervis Bay reactor. This was actually a pet
project of Sir Mark Oliphant to build a nuclear desalination plant. He
wanted to build a string of them along the South Australian coast and
pipe fresh water inland for irrigation.

Cheers
David