Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Nuclear power 'helps stabilise a grid more and more dependent on renewables'" video.

This dope just doesn't get it. Wind and solar power is reliable, the wind is always blowing somewhere and the sun is always shining somewhere. SMR technology is nothing new, it as been around for at least 60 years, the problem for Rolls Royce is not just the waste which by the way is some of the most poisonous substances on the planet but it needs to get orders for about 100 of these SMRs to make a profit. They are safe, however you need to convince a community to put one in their backyard, good luck with that. So while your sorting all that out, renewables just keep getting cheaper and more reliable as battery technology advances. Let's see how Andrew reacts to Rolls Royces announcement of the construction of a SMR 500 metres from Andrews new abode down there on the Mornington Peninsula. Join the real world!!!!
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@bobegan2865 Do you have any evidence for this statement? Do you even have the remotest idea of how the Australian electricity market works? Have you any understanding of the politics of introducing nuclear power into the Australian market? Granted the Chinese can put a tshirt in your local K Mart for $5 but you analysis and comment about the complicated engineering and costs in relation to SMRs is fairly vacuous.
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@bobegan2865 Bother or can't? Granted old fission reactors can provide cheap electricity If you disregard all its other concerns and the state subsidies they enjoy. (No wonder your price per kilowatt is so low.) Most particularly waste that is poisonous for the next 20000 years. As your reactor ages it will become less and less reliable and more costly to maintain. They are already shutting down reactors because you gas is cheaper. The cost to build this type of reactor in Australia even if politically acceptable is completely uneconomical when compared to other energy sources. We have a free market here in Australia and private industry wont go near it with a barge pole. We can't even get private industry here to invest in a coal or gas plant, as the price of wind solar and battery technology advances and cost continues to further decrease with nil safety or waste concern The Federal government here which spent the last 40 years privatising the energy business has recently decided to go back into the power business and for political reasons is going to build a unnecessary gas plant that the free market what's nothing to do with.
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