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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • It can’t help to fix the issue now because it takes 20 years to build a functional plant IF you have the local skill and regulatory framework to design, build and operate them. It would take us 30 years because we have none of that. We can roll out gigawatts of solar, wind, batteries and hydro energy storage in significantly less time. These technologies require no new framework and the engineering is well understood.

    Nuclear bombs are a significant step from nuclear power. The engineering of the equipment to refine the fuel alone is difficult and requires huge amounts of capital and manpower to develop, let alone that required for the bombs or the delivery systems. Australia doesn’t have the budget or the capability to build nuclear plants let alone nuclear weapons.


  • It’s not a solution for addressing the climate crisis, any attempt to market it as such is disingenuous. It could have been but it’s 20 years too late.

    It certainly can be a part of a long term energy plan and even a long term military plan, but it’s not going to be providing energy in 10 years. The only things that are going to achieve that are wind and solar with energy storage.

    Also Ukraine has had nuclear plants since the Soviet era. Do you mean under under America’s nuclear weapon umbrella? Nuclear weapons development is significantly different from power generation.