Coal it is then. We are lucky to have such a cheap fuel. By the end of the century when the uranium price goes up we can reprocess spent fuel and use even more abundant thorium.

If wind and solar are so cheap why do they need generous subsidies and quotas? Where is windpower in heatwaves when air conditioning demand goes through the roof? Where is solar when people are cooking their evening meals? What will reliably power heavy industry and eventually millions of electric cars?

I'm puzzled why indigenous groups would have organised opposition to nuclear. A cynic might think it is a front run by city based agitators, some them not indigenous.

Here's a new paper presenting a counterfactual analysis that shows the global benefits forgone as a consequence of the disruption to nuclear power progress in the late 1960s and since:
'Nuclear Power Learning and Deployment Rates; Disruption and Global Benefits Forgone' http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169/htm
The anti-nukes are encouraged to read the Notes in Appendix B, before repeating the usual anti nuke-talking points.

Root-Cause Analysis attributes the cause of the disruption and cost escalations since to the activities of the anti-nuclear power protest movement

Regarding the cause of the disruption to nuclear power progress in the 1960s and 1970s, this Rand report is informative: Daubert and Moran, 1985, ‘Origins, Goals and Tactics of the US anti-nuclear protest movement’ https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/notes/2005/N2192.pd

Good news for those (internationally) who are building new nuclear power stations.
Bad news for those who want more development of thorium power.

Meanwhile development in SA is being held back by bigots like Jim Green who can't tell the difference between constructing a nuclear waste dump in SA and turning the state into a nuclear waste dump. We may or may not have suitable sites for such a facility, but decisions should be based on the truth.

Strange logic: that because the cost of processing uranium is low, energy companies will be less likely to take up nuclear power ? That no government will be interested because the cost of nuclear fuel is too LOW ?

Ah, so that's why governments and energy companies ARE interested n renewables - because their costs are so high ?

Ah, got it.

Joe

What this character says is good only for lunatics: those who don't like nuclear but don't like coal either. They think that we can survive with windmills and solar panels. Well, we can't, and we need to start building more coal-powered stations ASAP. China knows it. India knows it. These countries will replace us in the First World before much longer, and we will have to beg them for aid. The West is rooted, thanks to the white-anting, treasonous Left.

And, just by the way, we had a black-out in our part of Adelaide on Wednesday. Only for two or three hours, and on not particularly hot day. Not a peep about it in the news. Election's in three weeks.

Joe