The naive belief that we can get from 60% coal baseload to under 20% in just 6 years doesn't help the credibility of Bowen, AEMO, CSIRO et al. We await the promised success of hydrogen fuelled power stations, noting hiccups like Tallawarra B not having enough of the fuel. The same people are strangely silent on how Snowy 2 went from $2bn to $12bn. Surely a $3bn SMR won't escalate by anything like that amount.

On our present course we are headed for energy rationing, politely called 'demand management'. Big electricity users like aluminium smelters will default to China so we buy the finished product made from our own materials but supposedly guilt free on emissions. Nascent value adding industries like battery manufacture and green steel will insist on big subsidies until that well runs dry.

The Koreans probably could build gigawatt reactors faster than us but what they didn't get in the UAE were incessant legal attacks. Unfortunately I think it will take blackouts before opponents tone it down.

Hear, hear and well said, Graham. Yes, there is a lot of hot air around nuclear, and it is all coming from minister Bowen.

We can buy ready to operate nuclear power modules as MSR thorium that are for sale from the Chinese.

And with that purchase by the government, Able to replace aging coal-fired power as multiples of modules replacing coal as the heat source. N.B. Must be done as public amenity to keep price gouging foreign investors out of the loop! Every boy and his dog now knows, what a huge mistake the privatisation of cash cow, public amenity, was!

A mistake never ever be repeated! One only needs look at Korea to know and understand that the only way we once again can become a manufacturing economy is through cheap energy, No ifs, buts or maybes! And MSR thorium does that in spades, with PKWH prices as low or lower than 3 cents!

Let's end the endless prevarication and just get the thing done, then allow the increased economic activity to draw down any debt which by the way can be all internalised and written off by the created and finished assets!

Don't just stand there, do something more than have an inquiry! It's no mistake that Canberra is the hot air ballon capital of the world?
Alan B.

Albanese (Dutton) backs wind-solar (nuclear), carefully ignoring the gas cartel and the massive migration. It's how we do democracy in Australia.

The usual fake limited news garbage.

https://theconversation.com/dutton-wants-a-mature-debate-about-nuclear-power-by-the-time-weve-had-one-new-plants-will-be-too-late-to-replace-coal-224513

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/the-australian-newspoll-survey-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-smr-energy-grid-plan

Coal and gas is what we should still becusing instead of sacrificing our economy to China while they use coal, coal, and more coal.

Still, it's good that people seem to be coming around to nuclear, and the Coalition has said that it will go nuclear if elected.

But, the damage to our economy and standard of living has been done, and will get worse before the next election; and, what will the Coalition do, if they are elected, during the time it takes to get nuclear generation up and running.

Forcing myself to watch a few minutes of 'The Project' last night, I was dismayed at those insipid mutts trying to ridicule Dutton & the Nuclear policy. They appeared to act under instructions to ridicule the LNP stand on nuclear. I really doubt that anyone could be so stupid & say what they said.