Let’s talk nuclear, the Coalition says – just don’t mention cost or how long it would take

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:35:04 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/lets-talk-nuclear-the-coalition-says-just-dont-mention-cost-or-how-long-it-would-take>

"The Coalition appears to have landed on a neat solution to decarbonising
Australia’s electricity grid – just swap out the coal plants for nuclear.

Writing in the Australian newspaper, the shadow climate change and energy
minister, Ted O’Brien, said such a plan would reduce the need to spend billions
on new transmission lines that would connect solar and windfarms to the grid.

O’Brien wrote he had visited Wyoming, where the Bill Gates-backed company
TerraPower was planning a demonstration nuclear power station on the site of a
coal plant.

The idea was backed by the Australian itself in an editorial that said the
Coalition’s “timid embrace of nuclear must be urgently considered”.

But what neither O’Brien, nor the Australian, mentions is the cost of the plant
to build and the time that’s available to do it."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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