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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear plants are white elephants that have only one purpose which is to enrich the corporations selling them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And make state's more self sufficient in an increasingly dangerous and conflict ridden industry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. How many countries actually have the technology to build nuclear reactors? How is importing technology going to make your country more self sufficient?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you think nuclear energy is a secret? It is literally a constituent part of most secondary scholing science classes.

Having energy produced in your own country reduces imports for LNG, OIL and gas.

With the push for greener energy and EVs having the energy needed for private transit rather than importing oil reduces cost and further improves carbon footprint.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

If you think middle school physics is enough to build a nuclear plant, well that's pretty par for the course for nuke fanboys.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

France has had to dial back its nuclear power production due to solar production which is a clear signal that in Australia, Coalition policy is rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


For starters, it clearly distinguished the opposition from the Labor government, whose plan to decarbonise the power system rests largely on big-ticket renewable energy and transmission items.

The thinking behind that pivot has been on full display in recent days after the Coalition finally unveiled the major details of its energy policy for the upcoming federal election.

To ensure South Australia's electricity system doesn't blow up, virtually all other generators have to pare back their output to a bare minimum or switch off entirely.

Robert Barr, a power industry veteran and a member of the lobby group Nuclear for Climate, did not shy away from the potential for future tensions, noting that coal was already getting squeezed out of the system by solar.

But Dr Barr said any clash could be easily managed through a combination of price signals that encouraged householders to use more of their solar power and export less, and new reactor technology that could ramp up and down more effectively.

These subsidies applied to both utility-scale projects and rooftop solar panels, through the large- and small-scale green energy targets introduced by the Rudd Labor government.


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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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