but who is putting up their hand to build it?The Liberal party are putting up their hand
As part of their zero carbon policy they want to build nuclear power stations.
First they would need to get laws through parliament.
Then find thousands of skilled workers or train them, (in competition with other nations who are trying to overcome nuclear energy worker shortages.)
In France they want to deliver a second nuclear era to replace their ageing fleet so are in the process of a multi-year training program. It takes years to get welders up to spec.
Then find somewhere on Commonwealth land to dump the waste.
Start a nuclear regulatory authority run by bureaucrats.
Get planning and building approvals.
It might be better to continue the current policy of wait and see how the progress of small scale nuclear reactors turns out. We'd be able to dig a hole, line it with concrete and chuck in a factory built reactor or two shipped in from South Korea.
At the moment the increase in interest rates around the world is making new investment ideas for generating power more expensive than previous budgets forecast. So prospective power customers are choosing currently available cheaper options.
If the Libs want to do it they might need to get Snowy Hydro involved and pay for it using taxpayer funds or underwrite new projects to de-risk them.
Go back to the oldn' days when Governments paid for power generators and recouped the costs slowly over time before they decided to exchange future income for a lump sum through privatisation.
