May I remind your correspondent that the Australian voters have twice rejected his nuclear fantasy, first with Morrison and then Dutton (“Society wants reliable energy”, CCN 494).
Furthermore, he also seems to have forgotten that the CSIRO, our peak scientific body, has declared nuclear energy to be more expensive than the alternatives.
Finally, he has still to explain just how the radioactive waste products will be disposed of; dump it in the outback as once proposed, for the next generation to solve?
Nuclear energy (i.e. fission) is dead; get used to it.
Email, Jul 15
Dave Horsfall, North Gosford
It’s sad we are surrounded by fearful people. Nuclear energy at present is the only viable alternative energy source we have. PS look up Synrock its still around or so what we have a hole in the ground. So your alternative is solar panels replaced every 10 years(China loves you), panes dumped as landfill, lets get the rare earths for batteries ,and you think Cadmium was polluting you have seen nothing yet
totally agree with above comment.
35 nations use nuclear power to generate electricity. There are 440 nuclear power plants with another 60 in the development pipeline. There are 160 nuclear powered marine vessels. There are countries with less developed economies than Australia that have nuclear for electricity generation. The technology has been around since the 1950s.
Nuclear power plants are alive and well.
Nuclear power makes up 10% of global energy. it is being phased out due to aging infrastructure and high costs compared to the rapidly declining closets of renewable energy. With the new projects most of them have exploded their budgets on average by over 120% and 58% of projects are experiencing cost overruns of 204%. prime examples being the UK Hinkley being 14 years behind schedule