Antinuclear

Nuclear power is not feasible for Australia

Nuclear is not feasible  https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/nuclear-is-not-feasible-20210724-p58cl4.html

Your correspondent unfortunately ignores the time scale of any nuclear installation in eastern Australia (“Making the nuclear case”, Rod Cripps, Letters, The Sunday Age, 18/7).

Their massive water usage for cooling means a coastal installation (remember Japan’s Fukushima plant?). Where? It would take at least 15 years to get public approval of any site, by which time we will have burnt.

Nuclear can’t compete on price with even coal or gas, both of which are already becoming uncompetitive with renewables. To even consider it just gives our incompetent federal “denialista” more arguments for delaying critical action now.

July 26, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized