Antinuclear

Nuclear power is a non-starter .

AFR, 27 Sept 23

Arguments about nuclear power won’t help the urgent problems of the energy transition, with a growing gap between reality and Australia’s renewable energy plans.

Political brawling over the viability of small nuclear reactors as a partial replacement for Australia’s coal-fired power generation is another distraction for a struggling energy industry for this decade at least.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has been as keen to denounce the high cost and technical uncertainties of building small nuclear reactors as the Coalition’s Ted O’Brien is to promote their potential to solve the dilemma of energy shortages meeting climate change ambitions.

But the far more urgent problem is the growing gap between reality and Australia’s intention to have renewables provide 82 per cent of Australia’s power needs by 2030.

The go-nuclear option, even if operational in countries such as the US and Canada by the end of the decade, can’t deliver within that time frame in a country with no nuclear industry……………………………………..

September 28, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized