The controversial energy capacity will help transition high-paying coal jobs and revitalise local manufacturing, says a progressive Canadian advocate.
Such a scenario would leave newly built renewable capacity disconnected from the city and industrial customer base.
Calls for a domestic nuclear industry have grown louder in recent weeks and months, led by a Coalition push to lift the Howard government’s late 1990s ban on the energy source. By contrast, Australia’s coal-dependent east-coast grid spews up to four or five times as much carbon per unit of electricity, according to global comparison site ElectricityMaps.com.
“Canada did not have the heavy manufacturing capacity to make large US-style pressure reactors, like a big pressure cooker, so instead focused on modular core reactors,” said Dr Keefer.
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