We have been enfeebled by an education system that has indoctrinated two generations with an unwarranted fear of all things nuclear and a faith in the complete adequacy of renewables.

You'll witness this at the student strike on Friday, where the clamor for renewables will be as loud as that for climate action. I remember one young lad in the previous event expounding the virtue of Iceland being a renewables poster-child and 'if we'd just follow its lead'. He didn't grasp that renewable energy there is dense and 24/7/365, not sparse and intermittent. It's not his fault, he's a product of a dumbed down post-modern science curriculum, with a diminished basis in absolute truth. Critical thinking demands a command of facts over ideology but informed and uninformed opinion are given equal validity to keep students engaged in what passes for 'debate'.

There appears no understanding among our students, and not much more in the general population, that there is a massive cost to 100% renewables, were it even technically feasible. There appears no grasp that we we are in a competition where past low energy costs have played hugely in determining capital flow into Australia.

Renewables/anti-nuclear groupthink has infiltrated every institution and level of gov't, the CSIRO and our education system. We appear set to re-fail the great German experiment.

Our poor grandchildren.

Very true and we will see a rally of future brainwashed voters !

David, I am afraid that by the time enough of the new voters wake up
the economy will not be just in a bad way but collapsed.
Then they will say; "we told you so Global Warming did it !"

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Hi Alan B.

Here's a gift:

"...The US military is conducting research into the development of rapidly deployable, container mounted nuclear reactors to support deployed American and allied forces, reducing threats to traditional supply and support convoys.

...Enter the development of very small modular nuclear reactors (vSMRs), designed to deliver between one and 10 megawatts (MW) for years without refuelling in a rapidly-deployable (road and/or air) package.

Both the US Department of Defense and NASA have collaborated on the development of such reactors for use in military and space exploration contingencies."

From DefenceConnect, 19 March, 2019 http://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/3737-us-pursuing-mini-nuclear-reactors-to-support-military-expeditionary-capabilities

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But. I don't think the US military is thinking about a Thorium Reactor, more likely a mini-PWR?