Canada, the US, UK and Japan are incorporating small modular reactors into net zero energy transitions, so that nuclear power can back up intermittent renewables.
is not to insist that Australia should belatedly embrace nuclear power as part of the net zero energy transition. Nor is it to claim that nuclear energy in Australia will stack up economically.
Back in 1972, turning on nuclear power was part of Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam’s modernising agenda for Australia after 23 years of Coalition rule. The building of thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines to connect wind and solar projects is tangled in environmental approvals andState Labor governments have rejected gas-fired firming power to help the transition. The Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme is mired in delays and blowouts.coal-fired power station running until 2035, to keep the lights on., rather than being ruled out to placate Labor’s ageing anti-nuke Midnight Oil brigade.
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