There's an acclaimed HBO mini-series that was shown on Netflix last year that I am now slowly catching up with.
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"Chernobyl" tells in gripping and terrible detail the story of the explosion of the nuclear power station of that name in Ukraine in 1986.
The reactor explosion triggered the release of substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere killing dozens in the aftermath and many thousands since due to radiation exposure.
I was living in England at the time and it only sheer luck that prevailing winds didn't carry it over in our direction and likely shortening my life.
While Soviet bungling caused the accident, and there are dozens of nuclear power stations still active in Europe (though curiously they are placed mostly in border regions), the incident has forever scarred me mentally and turned me against nuclear power.
I don't know if Bob Katter has watched Chernobyl but I'd recommend him to do so, if only so he doesn't blithely suggest that our region would be suitable for a nuclear reactor.
There are any number of good reasons why nuclear power will never fly in Australia such as the astronomical cost of building a station and the long lead times to do it.
Even if we started tomorrow, it would take at least 12 year to come online, and I have no doubt that solar and wind power will make nuclear redundant by 2032.
But more important is the safety factor.
Mr Katter and others might argue the risk of failure is low, but the consequences are too grave to make even low risk activity worthwhile.
Do we really want to risk contamination shutting down our region for hundreds if not thousands of years?