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As in every election over the last 20 years, at stake will be the question of whether Australia chooses a clean energy future, or prolongs the life of coal and gas – an outcome the nuclear plan relies on.

In that sense, nuclear energy is shaping up as an election fig leaf like no other.

John is on Mastodon @johnquiggin@aus.social. I'm not sure if me tagging him here on Lemny federates to Mastodon ?

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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (9 children)

If the plant isn't going to start construction until 2030, that's still plenty of time to build renewables, nuclear isn't supposed to be your only source of power.

[–] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)

A key part of the coalition nuclear plan is to block the further construction of solar and wind.
There is currently twice as much approved (but yet to be constructed) capacity as the coalition intends to allow in the next 15 years.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Why is it that only the fossil fuel-backed coalition support constructing the nuclear plant?

Shouldn't the other guys want the cheap, clean energy?

[–] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

The coalition has multiple aims here.

  1. This is a political differentiator - they become the "Nuclear" party.
  2. Nuclear technologies create a wonderful wedge to split any green support along the "reduce carbon" and "anti radioactive" line.
  3. In a best case, if they started tomorrow, there would be AT LEAST a decade (more like 15 years) before the first Nuclear electricity got onto the grid, and in the meantime their fossil fuel backers get to BURN-BABY-BURN.

And that's before we get into all the other little thing, that are really just colouring around the edges, ie spending taxpayer money to build a new monopoly which the government can later privatise to their sponsors.

One of the things that I haven't seen any of the recent articles highlighting is how no investment body is willing to back the construction of nuclear power in Australia, so the government will have to 100% bankroll it with our taxes.
Meanwhile, private equity are lining up to invest in wind, solar, batteries etc - just angling for subsidies because "why not?".
This ALONE should be indicative of most likely outcomes.

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