Antinuclear

Philip White 11 Sept 15, So Ross Garnaut says nukes are too expensive for Australia. We didn’t need a Royal Commission to tell us that. Just look at the fiasco of the way over budget, way behind schedule new nuclear plants being built in France, Finland, and the US, not to mention the exorbitant subsidies being offered for the planned new plant in the UK.

If he had a bit more insight into the matter Garnaut might have gone on to point out that not only is nuclear power too expensive, but it also competes directly with and crowds out renewables. That’s not good for jobs, given that renewables generate far more jobs per kWh than nuclear.

And if he really knew his stuff he wouldn’t have waffled on about uranium enrichment, because he would have known that the international market is oversupplied and that even established uranium enrichment companies like USEC and JNFL can’t make a go of it.

But I suppose it was unfair to expect too much of him. Australia doesn’t have any real experts in this field.