Nuclear power now ‘viable’ for Australia 

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I know its too much to ask these days but just treat us like adults with this. Sick of the emotional fear mongering and pandering. Bloody tiresome.

Pragmatism. Rational thought & discussion. Missing completely in Club Albo.

Nice to hear from Dr Z

Yesss! Game over Dutton wins!

Use the French nuclear method which is a standard designs and every plant is the same size, the same design, same, everything. The reason is what doubles and multiplies cost is regulatory costs during building. With custom build everything has to be tested and retested many times, sometimes rebuilt several times. To avoid all that you use an already tested standard design every time like the French. A very leftish inspection team just love to draw out delays rebuilds overhawls redesigns and alarmist concerns for many years. Of course the unions are extremely happy if the build time extends 10 times.

Finland opened a new nuclear power station a few weeks ago. No one is moaning. Technology has changed considerably and is constantly changing. Grow up Australia and stop whinging.

Actually with the events in Ukraine most of the western world are crying out for additional nuclear fuel manufacturing capacity independent of Russia. Where better to establish it than at the site of the worlds largest uranium reserves?

If government cut foreign aid we could afford nuclear easily….. Australia first….

Well done Chris, fantastic show. This is debate Australia needs. Dr Ziggy Switkowsky has done ,in nut shell, evidence that nuclear energy is profitable , possible, realeble, chepar, clean, communities beneficial. Australia can be nuclear powerhouse ,definitely. Winning Formula ,definitely. 👍🐖💯🇦🇺🇺🇸❤️🤗🌎

Noook-leear is viable, reliable and constant, it wont cost a trillion to set up ( unlike fantastical renewables) and it will genuinely being prices down 👎😂😂😂😂😂

I will be perfectly honest... we are stuffed. Nuclear is two decades away at least, mostly due to the politics and bureaucracy. Coal fired power will progressively be shut down over the next decade and renewables will not cut it. Electricity is going to be prohibitively expensive to the point only the wealthy will be able to heat their homes with it. Many will go off grid or make do without any fixed power infrastructure at all relying on portable panels to charge only the most necessary appliances. I bid you all the best.

Nuclear all the way!!

Ziggy will be 108 by the time they are built. I don't think he will see any benefits.

Make sure to consult aboriginal elders before building anything 😂

I'm concerned we're at a inflection point between 3rd and 4th generation reactors. I'm also concerned Australia is still too anti-nuclear that they'll/we'll be able organise fly-in protesters, and that the anti-nuclear movement and regulations will kill our path to safer, better for the environment than wind and solar, energy.

Yep, Dutton will be getting my vote for sure.. About time this happens. There are obviously other issues to address as well, but energy availability, and cost are absolutely crucial to address with sustainable options NOW. Just don't change your mind now Dutton, don't go and pull this cart halfway- the benfits of plentyful energy supply are endless if done properly

Store the spent rods, in Albo's and Bowens properties. I want to see a 3 eyed Bowen fish. 🐟🤣

Nuclear only works with a national grid. Grid only supplies 15% of all energy used in Australia. 1 in 7 The grid costs $1TRILLION. Generation costs $billions. 7 times more grid is impossible, solve the right problem. Idiot non thinking or part thinking is insane. Is he saying a $7 TRILLIONS solution and no CO2. Plus generation plant $BILLIONS plus decades and decades of grid construction to creat more capacity. Ask a grid construction engineer. Ask me.

What he fails to say is if australia lifts its urnaium ban on all states there will be a substantial amount of urnaium coming into the market 😊 and supporting a company called paladin energy in mount isa will support queensland and the coty of mount isa for years to come as glencore pulls out of the town.

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Nuclear fuel supplier USEC Inc. said on Monday the estimated cost for building the American Centrifuge Plant has risen by about one-third, to $2.3 billion from $1.7 billion. This is cheaper than nuclear electricity generation plants. So Australia stops selling coal and sells uranium yellowcake to stop worldwide CO2 emissions. Australia needs to pay for 6 AUKUS USA nuclear submarines and USA weapon systems. Yes, "taking 7" nuclear reactors is not enough for an electric Australia. People will desert the grid and the $TRILLIONS investment asset for their rooftop and their Battery Vehicles. $TRILLIONS assets need $BILLIONS in cash flow.

Nuclear needs the national electrical grid. The grid cost $TRILLIONS 1/7 th of Australia's energy is electricity. Ziggy does not look like an Electric Grid Construction Engineer who has priced and built these things. He looks like a smug ignoramus. Like the child who said " I will pay for it, you give me the money ". FMD, he is frustrating and pompous expert outside his expertese.

Now just look at the ACCIDENTS IN America , Russia (Ukraine) and Japan. No thanks, I don't mind liquids gas. But no to uranium..

Ask Ziggy how much a little NBN wire costed Australia. Now ask how much the new fabulously big national electrical grid will cost. Nuclear promoters will tell you $1million per km. The government publications say 1million km. But we have 7 times more fossil fueled energy to replace. Australian's can not afford the bigger grid in an electric world. If Australia went gas only we would half our CO2 from the grid. This is ezi pezi thinking.

Manufacturing and the cost of powering it has had many companies go overseas.

Nuclear power always was viable for aust

Research power factor and realise the inefficiencies of solar power

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Good on Peter Dutton to seriously start the debate now on building #nuclear - powered energy infrastructure in strategic locations in Australia! 😍 #smarteconomy #ESG #AI

Great interview Chris..👍👍 Bring on nuclear, why wouldn’t you der

The nuclear debacle is playing so poorly for Dutts & Co. I bet he regrets his stupidity. Keep it up, please, all the way to the election. Please.

Ziggy the man that blew 2 billion from a telstra deal gone wrong in Singapore

Given the inherent dangers of PFAS, I’d feel safer living near a Nuclear reactor… than near PFAS contaminated land and waterways. OH WAIT, considerable levels of PFAS has been found in much of Australia’s drinking water!!💀💀💀

CANDU is the way to go.

Given the inherent dangers of PFAS, I’d feel safer living near a Nuclear reactor… than near PFAS contaminated land and waterways. OH WAIT, considerable levels of PFAS has been found in much of Australia’s drinking water!!💀💀💀

Viable maybe. Feasible- over a long stretch. Desirable? Not economic vs alternatives. Nah dud product for 2024 Australia.

Rolls Royce have SMR (small modular reactors) already developed. These reactors are about the size of two football fields, can be built to blend into the landscape, and offer clean, safe, and much cheaper energy for 1 million homes for around 60 years.

Well if the price is too high people will put solar+batteries in, and the cost passed onto those that can't have them. At least I know I will. That is not good.

What is that smoking out of thoes chimneys surely it's steam or is that pollution??????????😮😮😮😢🎉

How much will nuclear contribute to the total power mx? Don’t know. How much nuclear power will be produced? Don’t know. What mix of large and small reactors will there be? Don’t know. How many reactors will there be at each site? Don’t know. What will nuclear power cost? Don’t know. Will local opinion to the site of a reactor be overridden? Don’t know. How much waste will be produced? Don’t know. Where will the waste be stored? Don’t know. If you don’ know, vote NO.

Ziggy should have known better it's not that simple. Costings are impossible as a SMR in us has been abandoned and canada won't start on one before 2030.

No it's not. The CSIRO report put the nail in the coffin of nuclear power.