Talk:Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant

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The SGHWR was a steam generating heavy water reactor, and only ever existed as a prototype, at Winfrith Heath in Dorset in the UK. Had they won this tender they may well have received another from South Africa, but they never received any orders at all, and the prototype closed down some years later. Andrewa 03:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nuclear weapons...

One point that should be addressed in this article would be the issue of how it relates to the potential for an Australian nuclear weapon. The ABC's 4 Corners program claimed in a recent program that the decision to pursue nuclear power was directly related to John Gorton and bureaucrat Philip Baxter's desire to give Australia the option of making nuclear weapons if it so chose. While, in normal operation, nuclear plants don't make bomb-grade plutonium, as I understand things it certainly *could have been* be operated in such a fashion. If it's a heavy water reactor, Australia wouldn't even have had to master uranium enrichment to get the bomb (but would have had to use an implosion design rather than the almost trivially easy gun bomb). --Robert Merkel 05:36, 30 August 2005 (UTC)