Do Jim and the Greens want to sell coal to India?

Alternatively, if we'd followed the French model and rolled out nuclear in the 70s and 80s then we'd have produced about 3,750 million tonnes less CO2. We'd also have more uranium mines and few, if any, coal mines. We'd be exporting uranium and the entire planet would be much better off. Locally, we wouldn't have trashed the Hunter valley and we wouldn't now be digging the heart out of Queensland with huge coal mines and threatening to put more pressure on the Great Barrier Reef. You don't need big mines and big ports and big railways to handle uranium. We'd have no gas fracking.

On the negative side, had Australia gone nuclear with France we could have expected as many fatal nuclear accidents as France.

But what if we got hit by a tsunami, like Japan?

Before frothing at the mouth with worry about that, you might like to consider Guarapari beach in Brazil. You can have a look at the place on youtube here. This is far more radioactive than anywhere around Fukushima but has it been evacuated? No. Were sick and elderly people killed by being hurriedly thrown onto buses in the middle of the night? No. Is there despair and suicide and lives destroyed? No. All that stuff is a consequence not of radiation or the Fukushima meltdown, but of fear mongering by the anti-nuclear movement. A radiation expert from Imperial College in London recently described the Fukushima evacuation as "stark raving mad". I think he was being excessively polite. Why has nuclear fear, sometimes manifested as an obsessive compulsive phobia, driven such cruel and stupid actions? My recently published book GreenJacked has been endorsed by Nobel Prize Winner Peter Doherty and explains how the anti-nuclear movement has ignored about 30 years of science about cancer and persists with obsolete rubbish long known to be false.

All that is required for lunacy to have horrible consequences is for people with knowledge to speak so bloody softly that their words are lost in the din. That's been happening a lot for the past 30 years.