Sadly most greens Know SFA about nuclear energy and can only parrot the garbage in garbage out, idealogical imperative that drives them? Truly what they actually know about nuclear power could be written on the back of a postage stamp using a crowbar dipped in tar for a pen!

What they don't know is, MSR technology can be tasked with burning nuclear waste where it is just mostly unspent fuel. Providing almost free energy all while reducing the half life to 300 years.

Or that the longer the half life the less radioactive the substance is. Bananas are radioactive as are Brazil nuts and milk!

Thorium is fertile not fissile and is as the element, less radioactive than a banana! And needs to spend a fortnight in the blanket of a reactor to become fissile, namely as U233.

Moreover, thorium becomes the Great, Great Grandaddy of the miracle cancer cure, the alpha particle Bismuth 213. which is attached to a cancer anti body that then targets the death sentence cancer with little perceived damage to the surrounding healthy tissue And has been successful in several European clinical trials on ovarian cancers.

I'm also informed that it has been successful in numerous other death sentence cancers including some very nasty and inoperable brain cancers.

That the two most environmentally harmful waste products can be sealed in containers in a shielded environment on a production belt, to irradiate cyrovaced food, that will preserve it farm fresh for decades if not centuries, freezer free!

That some communities where the background radiation levels double that of the rest have half the cancer related health outcomes. And applies almost equally to general health related outcomes. It seems a little radiation is actually beneficial.

That used fuel rods can be sliced wafer thin then covered with manmade diamonds that then convert all the radiation to long term electricity! Imagine never having to ever charge your phone again? TBC.
Alan B.

Australia is between a rock and a hard place.
The oil companies are making long plans for exiting the oil industry.
The mad rush to renewables has faltered, and has every prospect of
never meeting the promises of the greenies.

Alan shows us a number of look good methods. Thorium from my point
of view should be a possible. India I read is building a thorium
reactor presumably for power generation, but it has all gone quite.

So with a faltering electrical system and a nonoperational solar
and wind system, where do we go from here ?
It seems that we must refurbish the surviving coal fired stations
order a number of gas turbine stations, sack the idiots that blew up
the coal fired stations and buy a stock of candles in the meantime.
After we catch our breath order a fleet of nuclear stations.
I cannot see an alternative to that path as it seems we will be less
broke going that way.

It is good to see people here who realise what a catastrophic hoax renewable energy is. I keep hoping that the major political parties will realise that the renewable energy Easter Bunny isn't real, but the current energy supply problem seems only to have intensified their stupidity. Obviously Malcolm wasn't the only science moron in parliament.

Indeed Fester, I only hope the first run of blackouts will cause
those pollies that know which way is up will then raise some questions.
The real problem is will they ask the right people ?

As announced on TV today we are going to introduce 85% renewables,
43% emission reduction all by 2030.
Oh yes for icing on the cake, only electric cars by 2030 !
Someone has lost touch with reality !

The article says: "We can have Renewable Energy, or Reliable Energy, but not both."

I disagree. You can have both if you're prepared to spend unimaginable sums on it. I've said before that the people want renewable energy, reliable energy and cheap energy. But you can only have two of the three. Cheap and reliable means no renewables. Renewable and cheap means no reliability etc.

Every PM since Howard has floundered on the problem of trying to pretend all three are possible. Despite a new government, getting all three remains impossible at least for now.

Turnbull solved the problem of convincing people they could have it all for a while by touting Snowy 2.0. That's now a disaster which doesn't get discussed. (http://www.smh.com.au/national/five-years-on-snowy-2-0-emerges-as-a-10-billion-white-elephant-20220310-p5a3ge.html)

As prices continue to escalate, it'll be interesting to see how long the government can hold the line on their emission fantasies.

It's too late to be talking about uranium or Alan's thorium when we now have an energy emergency, thanks to the renewables lunacy. The only way out of it - until we have enough time to build nuclear-powered plants - is to go back to what we have: cheap, abundant coal. For me, it would suffice to go back to coal and stick with it.