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Thankfully not. The question or agenda of nuclear power for the energy grid has cropped up many times in the past here. Each time after eventually reading th
by anenefan 1y ago
Thankfully not. The question or agenda of nuclear power for the energy grid has cropped up many times in the past here. Each time after eventually reading the room, it's decided it's not a good fit for the country. Late 90s the idea of this old school nuclear power plant BS was finally put out to pasture and dashed any hopes of internationally qualified companies that made their fortunes designing old style nuclear plants.
Had the opposition won on other issues, nuclear would have been touted as a mandate for them regardless and I fear the people who had the most to gain are those in the industries which would have cashed in around a plethora of studies, committees paid to sit and consider locations and other factors, proposed design ... etc which would run into the billions. Not one study but dozens upon dozens (prob in the hundreds) of them as each case is considered. Studies here are not cheap by any means [1]
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-11/commonwealth-kimba-napandee-nuclear-waste-dump-100-million/102840994 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-11/commonwealth-kimba-na...