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Let's chat about these SEVEN nuclear power plants the LNP want to build ... (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The press conference is currently still live so this was the best short video I could find on the topic.

To begin, I'm absolutely against this proposal, but I want to see a discussion - hopefully a constructive one - between Aussies (comments are always turned off for Australian news on YT) to gauge some idea of how people generally feel about the idea.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Happy cake day!

The thing about nuclear is that it just is too expensive, and it's never going to be ready in time. We need to be getting off of greenhouse emitting energy sources a decade ago. Renewables can get us there so much faster than nuclear can, because it'll be over a decade before we get a single plant operating even if we ignore all the political difficulties in getting started. With the political issues, it'll easily be 2040 before anything is online. That's just not soon enough.

As for cost, nuclear doesn't compare. It's much more expensive upfront than renewables, and it's still multiple times more expensive over its lifetime. There's no way of looking at it that sees nuclear as a more affordable option than renewables.

Also, baseload power is a myth.