One more thing, I've often met with amazement when I tell people new to Sydney that we have a reactor in the middle of our southern suburbs. It's been there a very long time. The spent rods are stored in pools outside. They've also been there a very long time, because politics. We wouldn't have nuclear medicine in Australia without it.
I haven't followed nuclear closely at all, so I could be missing something, but I don't get the broad discontinuance of nuclear either.
And I agree, there is way too much binary discussion these days, when the real solution lies in some combination of options.
Ummm, did you check the source I was quoting: Members of World Nuclear Association are located in 44 countries and cover all aspects of the value chain encompassing: All major reactor vendors. Nuclear utilities providing 70% of world nuclear generation. Virtually all of the world’s uranium mining, conversion, enrichment and fuel fabrication companies. Major nuclear engineering, construction, and waste management companies; and research and development organisations. Companies providing international services in nuclear transport, law, insurance, brokerage, industry analysis and finance. We continue to expand our membership, particularly among companies that are involved in nuclear-grade structures, systems, components and services and in nuclear newcomer countries.
But it is for medical, industrial and research use only. 20mW would power about 10000 house but note it only operates about 300 days of the year.
Short answer is it's too damn expensive to construct - the payback is many decades. My power bill in HK was broken down into sections and the most expensive portion was always the nuclear bit (also had coal and oil elements; no renewables at that time 2011-2015).
BTW, anyone who think you can build nuclear on time and on budget should google the Vogle 3 & 4 power stations in the US...
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/effectively-worthless-ev-bubble-bursts/news-story/f9337c5dc80ab4520ee253f692f137c5 Anyone here recall the horse vs ICE motor debate back in the days?
EV's exist because of government's throwing taxpayer's money at them because "climate change". Eventually the subsidies run out and you need the free market to adopt the product, but the market everywhere is saying "no thanks". ICE cars weren't subsidised, quite the opposite, they were quickly recognised as a tax cash cow. To this day 20% of the purchase price and 50% of fuel is tax.
Except if you ignore the catchy headline and read the actual figures you find (year on year April 23- April 24): EV down 5% Petrol flat Diesel up 14% Hybrids up 149% https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/electric-car-sales-surge-ends-in-australia-as-hybrid-boom-continues
No, but I think Whom recalls the internal combustion engine and electric car debate in 1903. And how did that end?
so they want clean energy but don’t want wind farm.. don’t want nuclear and solar also takes up land space… hmmm Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
There is so much stupidity going on in this space right now - did you see 4 Corners last week and the 'wildlife photographer' campaigning against wind farms and supporting the Gladstone mayor and the Callide basin coal mines and power stations? Well here is an equal scale comparison of the Callide area and Qld's largest windfarm (Coopers Gap): which do reckon is better wildlife habitat?
Electricity and electronics in a harsh marine environment which is difficult to access Sounds like a recipe for a short lifespan Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Just some facts... https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/india-now-consumes-more-coal-than-europe-and-north-america-combined
You do realise combined population of Europe and USA is a tad over 1 billion while India is closing on 1.5 billion? Not exactly on par when it comes to development and wealth either...
