There are fears Australia won’t have enough gas left for households and businesses on the east coast by this time next year, so some politicians are urging the consideration of nuclear power.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has reignited discussions on nuclear power. Homer Simpson worked at a nuclear power plant in The Simpsons.Australia is treading a fine line between the urgent need to shore up the domestic electricity market, and longer-term commitments to address the climate change crisis.
"It is high time that Australia had an honest and informed debate on the benefits and costs of nuclear energy," Mr Dutton said earlier this month. “Australia is one of the biggest uranium produces in the world now, how can we be hypocritical and sell other countries our uranium and not burn it ourselves here,” Mr Buckley said.Energy finance analyst Bruce Robertson said investing in conventional nuclear would be a waste of money for Australia.
“It is clearly zero emissions - but it generates toxic waste, and there is no solution for that. There are a lot safer and cheaper alternatives.”Conventional nuclear power uses a process called fission. This is when large, unstable atoms such as uranium are split apart. Nuclear fission can produce massive amounts of low-emissions energy, but also results in significant quantities of radioactive waste.
Construction on the ITER fusion reactor in France is scheduled to be completed in 2025. It will be the largest fusion reactor in the world.If it can be scaled-up, nuclear fusion holds the promise of virtually-unlimited energy that is emissions-free.
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