Another essay on the toxic legacy of the nuclear industry: keeping in mind that it is almost impossible to separate the use of nuclear energy and its association with nuclear weapons.

Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud by Ryser,Sherwood and Lafferty.

So if we propose to have solar and battery systems let us do an exerise.
Define the number of overcast days to maintain service. X = 4.

Then the size of the system for one days generation = Y
Therefore the system size is Y x (X+1+Z) where Z = battery losses.

Can you afford it ?

Peter, Daffy, Tombee, there is a solution to all the points raised:

We should import a guy called Kirk Soronsen from the US.

Kirk has the expertise to begin developing the use of what is known as the LFTR (lifter for short) which is a Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor, which when operational provides a reactor which cannot melt down, does not use high pressure coolant, can consume existing nuclear waste, provides electricity, much needed medical isotopes and coupled with additional infrastructure, can produce liquid and gas fuels in abundance to solve the transportation issues mentioned by others.

Additionally, the silly security issues raised by Plantagenet are irrelevant in this case due to the design implications of a LFTR. The link below is to a YouTube video well worth watching. It's not a short video but very important and highly informative.

Traditional high pressure nuclear reactor power remains dangerous, waste will always be a problem, the LFTR removes all this, Australia should get on the front foot of this technology, before someone else does and we end up paying a lot more for energy in the near future.

See http://youtu.be/P9M__yYbsZ4

You will be enlightened

Sadly humans cannot be trusted with such risky things as nuclear power.
Especially greedy, selfish, right wing humans.

Yes certainly you beaut new reactors that have no sustained record of real-world industry operation can only live up to the cheapness and safety claims of their spruikers imaginations'...

Meanwhile in the known, real world of TERRORISM euronews reported, 23 March 2016 http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/23/belgium-ups-security-at-nuclear-plants-following-brussels-bombings/

BELGIUM UPS SECURITY AT NUCLEAR PLANTS FOLLOWING BRUSSELS BOMBINGS

Security has been stepped up at NUCLEAR plants around Belgium amid fears they could be the next target after the Brussels attacks.
The alert follows the discovery of secret footage of a senior Belgian NUCLEAR official, in the Belgian flat of one of the suspects linked to the Paris terror attacks.

It’s understood to have contained dozens of hours of covert footage of an unnamed director of the Belgian NUCLEAR research and developement programme.

Increased security measures include more surveillance and the checking of vehicles by police and the army.

Non-essential staff at the Doel and Tihange [NUCLEAR] plants have been sent home although key staff will remain in order to ensure the plants continue to operate. This is because there are concerns that vetting procedures of staff may not be sufficiently rigorous.

It is understood that one of the accused in the Sharia4Belgium trial in Antwerp who is currently fighting in Syria had been a [NUCLEAR] technician at the Doel plant for three years."

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So workers for those little NUCLEAR reactors, which may be technically ideal sited in Port Phillip Bay, Jervis Bay and Byron Bay, will need high level security measures because of the known high security risks of NUCLEAR plants.

With increasing attention from Islamist Terrorists.

This is also noting the high sensitivity of the SMALL nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights.

Yeah Planta we all believe that, not. Anything to keep the sheeple scared and in line, what a joke.

I was not referring to cur current nuclear technology.

Learn about LFTR technology and you can then comment toward what I was talking about.