Albo was elected on a promise of power bills reducing by $275 instead they've since gone up 40%. Next I predict will be draconian demand management when the coal stations that provide 60% of our power shut down. For example demands to turn off aircon on 43C days.

I'd rather look at a nuke near an old coal station than spoiling rural vistas with wind farms and new power lines. As to the inflexibility of nuclear they can do desalination or make hydrogen when solar is going well. Funny how there is no reproach when the sun goes down but in the military going AWOL is a serious offence. Batteries themselves expensive and fast depreciating can only help a bit around dinner time. They won't keep aluminium smelters going.

As to the Rolls-Royce SMR I'm getting the impression that SA is cooking up some sort of tie-in with their future domestic power needs and the submarines. One big project is a west coast desalination plant and pipeline coupled with expansion of copper refining. 470 MW round the clock should do it.

The old “suicide note” gets a hammering these days. With both sides using it, there won't be anyone left.

But, why contemplate suicide, when Morrison started to kill us off by signing up to Net Zero, and Albanese is suffocating us by trashing cheap electricity, exporting jobs, and importing more people to ensure that we will have no shelter, no health services for the hordes.

To hell with Dutton and his nuclear power. By the time that was up and running it would be too late to save us from the slow death his party and now Labor has inflicted on us.

By that time, renewables or nuclear, without coal and gas we will be burning wood and cow dung trying to survive. That's if we are still allowed cows to blow out the dung with all that dangerous methane.

A big deal is being made of cost.
There is no doubt that renewables are very expensive because of the
duplication needed. Some calculations show five times, some believe
that it can be as high as twelve times.
Has anyone calculated the cost of one times renewables ?
Multiply that by 5 or 12 and you will have some idea of what you are
up for in a renewables paradise.
Oh yes as they have a 20 to 25 year lifespan by the time it is
complete they can start again. Does painting the Harbour Bridge ring a bell ?

Batteries I hear them say !
If they say that they have not thought just when they will recharge
them and where will the power to recharge come from ?
Actually you need another renewable system as you cannot use the grid
to recharge them. It is already loaded.
Also have they heard of a wind drought ? Ask Europe about that.

The main question being used is cost.
That is easy, call for tenders !

Seriously disagree! This article was written by a known anti-nuclear advocate. Moreover, I suggest that his stats were cherry picked for the most part.

Furthermore, I believe he knows SFA about current nuclear reactors and nothing whatsoever about safe, carbon free, MSRs that burn thorium>/U233 and or nuclear waste and in complete safety! With price PKWH at less than 3 cents!

Battery or pumped hydro backed renewables cannot ever get anywhere near that, without humungous taxpayer funded subsidies.

As for nuclear power being a suicide note, BS writ large. Conversely, could win the coalition the very next election.
Alan B.

Yes Bazza, ask for tenders and take nothing off the table.
Alan B.

Subsume:

The guts of this article subsumes the Democratic process is alive and well in Australia: it isn’t.