With Labor’s climate and energy policy in tatters, you’d think it would be keen to learn from others who are successfully decarbonising.
I’ll see Chris Bowen’s five issues on nuclear energy and raise him ten., he argues an energy mix with nuclear is expensive compared to his gamble of 82 per cent renewables by 2030, referencing CSIRO’s GenCost report.
A number of Generation III+ reactors are already fully commercialised and in operation today, including at least one SMR, and up to 50 more are coming to market.Third, Bowen claims nuclear is slow to build and disputes whether a plant could be operating in Australia by the mid-2030s. Fifth, the minister doesn’t think Australia can manage nuclear waste, which is contested by Defence Minister Richard Marles and is concerning given the government has agreed to manage nuclear waste from AUKUS.
Better for the environment: If the Liddell power plant were replaced by a nuclear plant with the same capacity, it could be comfortably located on the same 100ha site. By contrast, an equivalent renewables-only solution would need a solar farm spanning about 35,000 hectares, or a wind farm spread over 200,000 hectares, with a huge impact on the natural environment.
Good for communities: People with “high energy IQ” in communities such as Wyoming in the United States, which is replacing retired coal plants with nuclear, welcome nuclear’s economic and social value.
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