
National Party Senate Leader Bridget McKenzie says it is “really exciting” that Australians will have a choice over how the country reaches net zero and believes a “zero emissions future embraces nuclear”.
Opposition Energy Spokesman Ted O’Brien has said if Australia was open to nuclear, Liddell could be used to install four 300-megawatt small modular reactors or one 1.1 gigawatts larger reactor.
“I’ve been on this nuclear bandwagon for a long time and I’m super excited to see colleagues and indeed the Liberal and the National Party embrace what is a zero emissions technology, tested around the world.
“I just got back from Dubai and went to COP and attended a net zero global forum there on the sidelines, and to hear from the Greens in Finland, the Democrats in the US and young people from around the world who are interested in a zero emissions future embrace nuclear.
“It really is exciting to know Australians will have a choice about how we get to net zero.”
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I’ve been saying this for years. Nuclear is clean..and safe
Why don't you make a video of two girls kissing
**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.
Yah the issue is that a single power unit means that if it go down we all go down.
So as we learn.
That actually citizens should be encouraged to provide their own power sources.
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.
Zali is a moron. In the face of the facts, sticks to her deluded narrative! Where is the common sense person that actually represents the interest of their people?
Nope. When the Cabal falls and their minions removed there will be zero point energy devices released.
Y'all Elite Richie's don't win
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.
I don't even think about the affordability of Nuclear, it's just better in the long-run than wind and solar!
why is the alp still exporting billions of tonnes of coal to the world's biggest co2 emitter ? and why are the 'greens' allowing it ?
LOL!! What a joke!!
World Nuclear Association says that nuclear is financially unviable in grids with more than 30% renewables.
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.