When are you fuddie duddies going to get into your thick brains that the future of nuclear power is going to be using Thorium which will be infinitely safer, cheaper, with only a fraction of the waste disposal problems. These attributes need to be explained to the unwashed multitude, otherwise it won't get off the ground.
David

Coal. More coal. Australia is chocabloc with the stuff. It has served us well in the past: it can do so again. Fantasising about nuclear, which we would be starting at scratch, is a waste of time, and we are going broke.

If Australia wishes to be involved in AI, it is going to need a much better electricity system than the one the Albanese government has doomed us to. Data centres each use as much electricity as a small city. Australia will not have the energy needed if the current stupidity continues.

It's too late in the day to be yapping about banned nuclear power. We need to go back to the future: coal.

David,

There is quite a bit of interest in thorium. Well known is Copenhagen Atomics plan to breed fuel from thorium for their reactors, for the simple reason that it will make the fuel for their reactors very cheap. China likes thorium as it has plenty of it and likewise intends to breed fuel from it and make triso fuel for pebble bed reactors.

What is pertinent is that there is no uranium shortage currently, and from what I see the idea of using thorium seems to be more about substitution than redesign. What I'd be interested to know is how long it might be before new thorium would have to be mined to meet demand? Presently, the amount of thorium mined and not used would more than meet the world's energy demand. I wonder what Dr Caldecott would make of that?

Someone needs to take Dr. Caldecott and her cronies by the scruff of their necks and show them where Copenhagen Atomics is at.
David

Nuclear around the world has given nukes a bad name. How many years to build a reactor in England. We do not have that length of time.
Now we are using solar and wind while the system is under construction. The fuel for solar and wind is free.
Only goofballs would even mention nukes after the last election.
What China does is up to China, if they killed malty millions by their nukes China would not even mention it at all.
All that gets talked about is what other countries are doing which has no comparison to AU.