Nuclear Power??

Our Hapless and hopeless Energy minister wants a parliamentary committee to examine nuclear power.

Let us help him out

Emissions
It is very good in this area HOWEVER it does use a lot of water. Where are you going to get it from?

Development

It takes a coal plant about 8-10 years to build a coal plant and something like twice as much , maybe a little less, in building a nuclear  plant.  There is a lot more regulation as would be expected.

Costs
Last time I looked nuclear energy has costs of around $120/MWh. New coal is around $80MWh whereas new Solar is below $40 MWh and could wel lbe $30 MWh by 2025.

Baseload Power

Angus Taylor says we need baseload power. ( google baseload power and john quiggin for a retort on that.). In short baseload power is only of use when State governments own the assets, This makes sense as having a lot more supply than demand means no blackouts which are electoral poison.
However when the assets are owned by the private sector It makes no sense at all.
Dispatchable power is what they want and coal, gas or nuclear energy is very poor at dispatchable power..

so Nuclear power makes no sense at all.

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John Quiggin
Renew Economy