Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Coalition unveils cost of nuclear plan" video.

Yes the CSIRO cost study on nuclear power was extremely generous in its favour. Only optimistic dreamers think nuclear is financially viable.
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@totalsceptic why isn’t the question, what is Duttons knowledge of electricity generation. Or the qualifications of the CSIRO scientists v frontier economics. For a sceptic you seem very gullible.
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By what measure, not any LCOE study I’ve ever read.
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@ishtarlew598 Nope the CSIRO took onboard those criticisms as any good science agency would. They went away and redid the study and came back with revised data. Read the latest study, nuclear is twice the cost of renewables. The CSIRO is now taking criticism that its data is far to generous to nuclear power and that it is 4 X more expensive. You are wrong.
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@ishtarlew598 Nope wrong again. There isn't a nuclear plant in the world that has lasted 100 years or one that has been designed that long. Every exsiting nuclear plant will require significant costs to upgrade the infrastructure to last 100 years. If you honestly believe there is only a one off construction cost, you are factually incorrect. In the meantime in the next 25 years 200 nuclear power plants are scheduled for decommissioning. There are currently plans to build 65 nuclear plants. Do the math.
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@ishtarlew598 I’m talking specifically Australia. Nuclear may make some sense in countries that already have an industry. Every LCOE study clearly shows wind and solar is significantly cheaper in any time frame than nuclear. Spread that cost out over 30, 60, or 100 years. 30GW of wind = $120 billion, 30 GW of nuclear = $300 billion.
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@ishtarlew598 You are now talking 100% nuclear power. That's going to cost way more than the 7 x 1GW PWRs that is the LNP plan which only contributes 9% of of electricity needs in 2050. Once again every study i have read has wind/solar firmed by gas significantly cheaper than anything PWRs can do. You are living a pipe dream. No country in the world has come even close to fully nuclear, despite it being around for 70 years. Currently nuclear supplies 9% of the world's electricity. It peaked in the mid 90s at about 17%. No private investment is going to build a PWR in Australia even if it was legal. It's going to be your tax's that pay for it.
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