Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs

psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m sure I have also heard on radio national that Australia would have a lot of trouble running on nuclear because

We only have ~26 million people. We could only support about two or three normal sized reactors

If we only had three, taking one down for months for maintenance would knock out a third of our supply, half if we had only two

We really would want to use small reactors and have dozens of them, but they’re even more expensive, and we probably couldn’t support the expertise to run them due to the small population

Solar and wind and batteries is cheaper. Solar and wind and pumped hydro is cheaper.

It looks like the largest effect of an attempt to go nuclear would be to extend the lives of coal plants under a promise that the new reactors are only five years away for the next two decades

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