If nuclear is the future then the LNP needs to build one without taxpayer funding and then try and sell the energy to the market. The reality is that it is a flawed industry, that has never delivered and is overly expensive for the generation of energy, without including the long construction cost.
Jealous-Hedgehog-734 on
Coalition aren’t interested in nuclear power. This is a foil so they don’t have to answer difficult questions about green energy heading into the next election cycle which they know puts their policies at odds with the views of the electorate.
Classic politicing:
“If you don’t like what they’re saying, change the conversation.”
Forsaken_Alps_793 on
Granted it lacks details [almost non existence] but controversial?
Lastbalmain on
Try and sell this Dutton? $618 fpr a months electricity? A cost blowout to $50 billion for one plant? Energy bills rising FOREVER! And while we wait some 20+ years for a single plant to come online, we continue with Coal?
Latest estimates on renewables have us running at almost 100% by 2030. With storage capacity increasing exponentially, with better tech and less need for massive grid power, this is only going to decrease the need for fossil fuel energy. And that’s the real ideology behind Duttons nuclear idiocy. Keep those Coalition investors happy at ANY cost!
mrflibble4747 on
Can’t wait for Dutto to release his costing!
Waiting for the figures on end of life Closing Down, Decommissioning and ongoing care, maintenance and high security of the facilities and spent fuel ongoing.
I was born in Cumbria UK and the Windscale Nuclear Facility is going through this lifecycle stage right now.
Basically, 1 Billion per year for the next 100 years, so 100 Billion pounds (200 Billion $AU) for this stage alone.
Lets see how that is costed for the number of reactors Dutto envisages!
The budget is blown by this stage alone, never mind Design, Build, Use, Maintain costs!
What a Crock O Shit Peter! Fabulous legacy for the next 10 generations.
CuriouslyContrasted on
Anyone who thinks the LNP, the party that couldn’t deliver a broadband network, is somehow going to deliver nuclear power faster and cheaper than every country that has been doing it for decades. Is wilfully ignorant.
randomplaguefear on
No one has any intention of building nuclear, Hancock grabbed a bunch of uranium leases, gina got John to do it so people wouldn’t catch on to her.
Now the coalition will push nuclear to the moon until actually elected, gina will sell her stakes for a huge profit, coal will keep running and the vote to overturn the nuclear ban will fail even if some libs have to cross the floor.
The miners will make huge profits and actual energy policy will be held up another decade or more.
david1610 on
I’m suspicious of the plan to use coal assets to base the nuclear reactors. Seems like a gift to those owners. The only thing it solves is perhaps some of the pain finding other locations where people won’t object so much.
Regardless modular technologies are the only large investments that have a history or delivering on time. Think about that every piece of infrastructure that isn’t modular in design is almost guaranteed to not come in on time, this is why nuclear is so desperate for SMR.
Wind and solar have only one downside which is variable supply. There are technologies that mitigate this and those have a clearer history of getting cheaper and cheaper, batteries for example.
I think nuclear would have been great for Australia 30 years ago, unfortunately we missed that and there are cheaper options now.
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If nuclear is the future then the LNP needs to build one without taxpayer funding and then try and sell the energy to the market. The reality is that it is a flawed industry, that has never delivered and is overly expensive for the generation of energy, without including the long construction cost.
Coalition aren’t interested in nuclear power. This is a foil so they don’t have to answer difficult questions about green energy heading into the next election cycle which they know puts their policies at odds with the views of the electorate.
Classic politicing:
“If you don’t like what they’re saying, change the conversation.”
Granted it lacks details [almost non existence] but controversial?
Try and sell this Dutton? $618 fpr a months electricity? A cost blowout to $50 billion for one plant? Energy bills rising FOREVER! And while we wait some 20+ years for a single plant to come online, we continue with Coal?
Latest estimates on renewables have us running at almost 100% by 2030. With storage capacity increasing exponentially, with better tech and less need for massive grid power, this is only going to decrease the need for fossil fuel energy. And that’s the real ideology behind Duttons nuclear idiocy. Keep those Coalition investors happy at ANY cost!
Can’t wait for Dutto to release his costing!
Waiting for the figures on end of life Closing Down, Decommissioning and ongoing care, maintenance and high security of the facilities and spent fuel ongoing.
I was born in Cumbria UK and the Windscale Nuclear Facility is going through this lifecycle stage right now.
Basically, 1 Billion per year for the next 100 years, so 100 Billion pounds (200 Billion $AU) for this stage alone.
Lets see how that is costed for the number of reactors Dutto envisages!
The budget is blown by this stage alone, never mind Design, Build, Use, Maintain costs!
What a Crock O Shit Peter! Fabulous legacy for the next 10 generations.
Anyone who thinks the LNP, the party that couldn’t deliver a broadband network, is somehow going to deliver nuclear power faster and cheaper than every country that has been doing it for decades. Is wilfully ignorant.
No one has any intention of building nuclear, Hancock grabbed a bunch of uranium leases, gina got John to do it so people wouldn’t catch on to her.
Now the coalition will push nuclear to the moon until actually elected, gina will sell her stakes for a huge profit, coal will keep running and the vote to overturn the nuclear ban will fail even if some libs have to cross the floor.
The miners will make huge profits and actual energy policy will be held up another decade or more.
I’m suspicious of the plan to use coal assets to base the nuclear reactors. Seems like a gift to those owners. The only thing it solves is perhaps some of the pain finding other locations where people won’t object so much.
Regardless modular technologies are the only large investments that have a history or delivering on time. Think about that every piece of infrastructure that isn’t modular in design is almost guaranteed to not come in on time, this is why nuclear is so desperate for SMR.
Wind and solar have only one downside which is variable supply. There are technologies that mitigate this and those have a clearer history of getting cheaper and cheaper, batteries for example.
I think nuclear would have been great for Australia 30 years ago, unfortunately we missed that and there are cheaper options now.