April 11, 2025

13 thoughts on "‘A zero emissions future embraces nuclear’: Bridget McKenzie on net zero"

  1. **Environment and Water estimates that replacing Australia's coal-fired power stations with SMRs will require more than 70 SMRs and cost taxpayers $387 billion[8].** How long would it take to build 70 Small Modular Reactors, where's the expertise in Nuclear Energy in Oz… where are they going to be built, where's the waste going… that last for thousands of years.

  2. Nuclear is a dead, dangerous and polluting technology.
    Gina Rinehart wants to mine the ore, so Sky shills for her and doesn;t care they're doing nothing but making more problems for private profit and personal gains of greed-crazed loons like Rinehart.
    Murdoch's outlets are so corrupt and tyrannical.

  3. Remember Chernobyl and Fukushima and how they are still poisoning the world and will do so for thousands of years. Many of Australia's recent immigrants come from Japan and especially the Fukushima region.

  4. Australia going to nuclear power is a joke. You are being had, it is a LNP diversion from the fact that they have no net zero or energy policy, they didn't have one when they were in office for 10 years and they don't have one now.

    Nuclear is not economically feasible and it will take 20 years to build in Australia, what do we do in the meantime?

    The world nuclear association admits that renewables make nuclear and coal unprofitable by substantially decreasing their capacity factors and thereby increasing LCOEs for baseload generators, recently European nuclear generators were paying to produce power, this is an illustration of this capacity factor degradation in progress.

    Gencost shows even with transmission and storage renewables are the cheapest, there is no better analysis of the Australian grid.

    Renewables will be a fraction of the price by the time any nuclear can be built, solar cells reduce in cost by 10% per year and wind and storage costs are also falling. So nuclear built now is competing with tomorrows even cheaper renewables.

    Sticking with fossil fuels is not an option either. Fossil fuels prices are volatile as we saw with gas and renewables are cheaper in any case.

    Border adjustment tariffs are coming and if we stick with fossil fuels our exports will be taxed.

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