Failing basic maths on nuclear

Already I’m feeling lied to by the Leader of the Opposition who tells me that dirty nuclear power is cheaper than clean solar, wind and batteries. 

His own costings say that wind power costs about a 10th of the cost of a nuclear power station to build. 

Everyone from the International Energy Agency to the CSIRO scientists and even the Business Council of Australia agree that nuclear is more expensive and slower to build than renewable energy. 

That’s why the private sector is largely paying for our clean energy revolution – because it makes financial sense.

(Which is) unlike nuclear which is so expensive that (Leader of the Opposition Peter) Dutton would have to use our taxpayer money.

For Dutton’s nuclear reactors’ price tag, we could install rooftop solar on every Australian home and still have billions left over to fund schools and hospitals!

So why is Dutton trying to convince us that spending billions of taxpayer money on nuclear is a good idea?

Perhaps it’s because it will prolong his Liberal Party donors’ coal and gas investments while we wait for the nuclear to eventually be built?

The Central Coast and Hunter region has dealt with pollution from coal for decades – we don’t want to add the even-more-dangerous nuclear power and uranium waste to this deadly mix. 

More clean solar, wind and batteries is what I want for our future. 

Email, Dec13

Suzie Brown, Narara