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Nuclear reactors for electricity production are illegal to build in Australia by law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Australia https://en.m.wi

• bamboozled 5y ago
  My point is though, they're still planning to close large coal power stations ecause renewables are pricing them out. Coal could be Nuclear too in this regard.
  • panick21_ 5y ago
    And my point is this could have been done 40 years ago nuclear and we would be a n far better position regarding climate change. It could have been done 30 years ago after Kyoto protocols. It could have been done 20 years ago when everybody started to take it seriously. And if nuclear had really involved at all since the 1970s nobody would even think about deploying solar and wind. Next generation nuclear plant based on first principle analysis have no reason to be more expensive. The reality is such plants can run with little human intervention for potentially decades and the total land and materials requirements are not very large. The fuel has the potential to be essentially free as thorium is a waste product and if you can run on natural uranium its also basically free. The key is reducing the total investment to build a plant and the time it takes to build it. Both are very likely if you build plants that are only 1/10 the size and require far less safety and cooling equipment while being able to run on commercial turbines from gas and coal.