Will Australians embrace nuclear? The Coalition might take the gamble (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] Nath@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago

As recently as a decade ago, I might have been convinced that Nuclear was viable, if not Plan-A.

But, renewable energy has come so far in that time! It would have been the wrong call, and it's absolutely the wrong call today. The price per kW generated is a fraction of what Nuclear costs. That's before you get to the many, many negatives of Nuclear.

I honestly don't understand how renewable energy generation has become a party position.

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I honestly don’t understand how renewable energy generation has become a party position.

Serving entrenched interests. Preserving their profits in the short term and giving them more time to limit their losses from transition to renewables.

Advocating for nuclear is the same, probably just another tactic to delay on renewables. To the degree that it goes anywhere, though, it'll be funneling tonnes of government money to large entrenched interests (feasibility studies, industry framework design, reactor facility design, or the unlikely event of actual construction).