Is it true Australia has the largest uranium reserves in the world but do not have a single nuclear power plant?

Is it true Australia has the largest uranium reserves in the world but do not have a single nuclear power plant?

it's true that they have the largest urine reserves and that they drink it

>tfw 2nd after Australia
>dictatorship
>but still no nukes

Do you want nukes because you think Russia might invade you?

A nuclear power plant isn't economically worthwhile when the country is filled with coal too

>also filled with cheaper coal
>no water to cool down reactors

haha but le epic forced piss in mouth maymay

Nuclear power plants are super expensive as fuck. It's just the nature of of it.

lmao what? of course it is. nuclear powerplants are ALWAYS economically viable. it would be economically viable if there was infinite coal right next to the coal powerplant

except it isn't

a nuclear power plant costs significantly more to set up and maintain than a comparable coal power plant in Australia. The variable cost of output is cheaper, but upfront costs are significantly more

Also the nuclear power plants used across europe wouldn't work properly in Australia. They need to to be modular, small sized generating units, low unit costs and load following capabilities. No existing nuclear power plant system exists with those features, so Australia would need to spend billions developing the required technology while coal power plants already meet those requirements.

>DRINKY

Australia is too sparsely populated to justify nuclear power.

If you built one to power the whole country, you'd lose too much in transmission getting it from city to city.
If you built a handful to power the individual regions, the plants would only ever run at like 20% capacity. That isn't nearly worth the cost and associated risk.

Nuclear power is for places like Europe or Asia.
We really need something like proper solar thermal plants in the major regions.

>Itt mischievous angl*s trying to justify their massive contribution to the destruction of Terra's environment
>B-But muh pocket shekels
>I-It's too expensive!!!
>M-Muh way of life!

Lmao Aussies are so dumb they're destroying their great barrier reef lmao

South Australia is ramping up their usage of renewables, to the point that they often have days where wind provides more than 100% of our electricity.

It's causing some short term reliability issues as we wrestle with the federal government and privatised power operators, but the outcome will be virtually free electricity without environmental impact.

Port Augusta in the state's north is already being earmarked for a big solar plant.

Most of Australia may be shit, but don't mark us all with the same label.

>If you built one to power the whole country
how much power do you think they generate lmao

Is it true that America produces the most chocolate in the world, but doesn't celebrate Easter?

South Australia's renewable meme is causing massive economic strain on the federal government and a lot of funds from New South Wales and Victoria are being redirected to it. There's also major problems with reliability, or have you already forgotten when the entire fucking state lost power?

Does it all go to Russia

South Australia's renewable meme is the only reason that we (and to a lesser extent Victoria) can afford electricity.
SA has sufficient installed gas generation capacity to function without wind at all. The problem is there is no way that the state government can compel the operators of said generators to operate their plants (not at a loss, but at a thin profit margin).
If there is any failing there, it is the fact that the Olsen government sold this shit off to private companies who we now need to bend over to.

When the wind is blowing, the power price in the south east reaches almost record lows.
If we were to not have wind turbines, the system wouldn't magically work without it. It would be no different to days when the wind doesn't blow.

Building another coal plant isn't cost effective. Power stations like Hazelwood aren't closing for environmental reasons, but because they aren't worth the effort. To build a new one wouldn't even come close to being economical.
Gas isn't cheap either because of a stupidly high gas price (SA already has enough installed gas capacity, remember --the Pelican Point gas power station is little more than a decade old).

The only economically feasible way to fix our energy problems would be to install more renewable capacity, with solar thermal being a key technology in the field.

But people on the east coast are free to believe otherwise. It is the 'age of make-believe' now anyway.

>Australia is too sparsely populated to justify nuclear power.
Canada has 5, any other excuses?

look at a map showing population densities in both countries.

Canada's population is concentrated along the border, Australia's is along a much, much larger coastline, not counting Tasmania and Adelaide let alone fucking Perth.

The two aren't remotely comparable

*flips a map of australia 90 degrees to the right*
voila
now its the exact same

No it isn't

D R I N K Y W I N K Y

>
except our nation's population is spread over an entire border, while your east coast (where people actually live) is probably a third or quarter of the length of the border

Canada has a greater population *and* they can export excess energy to the United States via interconnectors (New York and Ontario share a power grid, for example).
Not only that but as other people have said Canada is more densely populated than Australia.

The border is about 6000 km long once you take out Alaska. That's the size of Queensland's coastline.

The majority of the population is in New South Wales and Victoria, yes, but there are millions living in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, with Western Australia's population predicted to double by 2030.

I'm not from the eastern states mate, I've got no skin in the game.

Renewable energy obviously is something the country as a whole should be moving towards, I just believe that the South Australian government did too much too quickly. AEMO are predicting shortfalls in South Australia's power supply, which is going to cause even more blackouts thanks to an over-reliance on wind power and has done nothing for overall power affordability, even with it dropping during windier periods.

The South Australian government didn't really do anything, and that is their major flaw.
The only thing they really did was rubber stamp some wind turbines that energy companies were crying out for.

Our energy problems at the moment are independent of wind. Had we not installed wind capacity, we'd be having the same problems more frequently.
The problems are more symptomatic of a private system than a push for renewables.

Wind hasn't had any negative impact on the supply of electricity in the state, and the fact that older plants are closing on the east coast is evidence of this.

Sydney also had supply issues during a heatwave a fortnight or so ago, but the state owned operator of the electricity network instead asked industrial customers to scale back usage to prevent load shedding.
Adelaide is unable to do this because it has privatised the entire system.

If you factor these key facts:
>Adelaide still has sufficient installed non-renewable capacity
>Power stations have been closing primarily due to age and cost reasons
>Private companies have been reluctant to invest in anything non-renewable even with the current conservative government
>The state government has had minimal involvement in the electricity network since the late nineties
Then it becomes apparent that wind can't have had much of a negative effect on our blackouts.
In fact in the most recent events, wind generation actually delayed or even prevented load shedding events.

It's a little frustrating seeing the federal government shout shit that doesn't even make sense and having people believe them.

That being said, I can't wait for the shitshow that will occur in Victoria once some generation closes (i.e. Hazelwood) and the federal government can't blame wind for the widespread blackouts (which some experts are predicting will be much worse than in SA).

DRINK

At least your dictator is aware of national consciousness and not a cuck

nuclear power is the future. wind is shit, solar is less shit than wind but still shit.