Dutton’s plan to nuke Australia’s renewable energy transition explained in full

Originally posted by Cowboyinvestor: ↑

1. The cost would be comparative or less than the $500B renewable transition as indicated by CSIRO. Using CSIRO figures of $8B, the cost estimate would be in the $50-70B, far less than the $500B renewable transition.

2. The estimate build time for a C2N is considerably less than a green field site, 6-10 years is the estimate provided by the US energy department

3. This was already answered by Dutton. The waste will be stored alongside the waste from the upcoming nuclear submarines, likely within a defence facility

4. Which of the proposed sites sits on a tectonic plate? Which of the sites has been affected by a large enough tremor that it would cause any damage to the site? ( this is poor fear mongering)

5. Business plan will follow

6. Most of the indicated sites have access to water. New generation nuclear technology requires less water than legacy tech

7. This has already been covered by Dutton, through negotiation and where that fails the commonwealth has constitutional powers to do so.

8. As per above. The commonwealth government has constitutional ability to reclaim land, as they have done with multiple M1 highway projects

Dutton hasn’t provided an anti-renewables plan between now and then. Quite the opposite, both he and Littleproud clearly said in the press conference that this is a long term plan and renewables will still form part of that energy mix.

I urge you to stop using misinformation to form a position

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You clearly do not understand. The AKUS reactors do not require refuel during the boat design life, hence Dutton trying to tie AKUS safety to his civilian power plant fantasy when it suits his agenda is all over the shop. The same shop he’s all over with regarding SMR a few weeks back to full scale reactors this week. Private investment a few weeks ago to government owned this week….and it goes on.

The inherent safety of a submarine pressurised water reactor does not apply to a civilian power reactor. My time will be wasted explaining the very simple reason to you. They will however have in common the pressurised water design….assuming Dutton selects a PWR over a BWR.

Fission powerplants are engineering marvels however the time for Australia to adopt this technology was 50 years ago.

Dutton has dug himself a hole and he’s now busy swapping his shovel for a John Deere excavator borrowed from one of his country party sidekicks. The election result cannot arrive soon enough and will finally be rid of the LNP…… finished for all time. Australian society will finally be free of the rapacious grip of this bunch of zesty halfwits and their backers.