Why Nuclear Power is a Non-Starter for Australia and the Pacific
Australia’s net-zero strategy
?The Australian Albanese government may have acted too hastily in phasing out its? coal-powered power stations to meet its Net-Zero target of achieving 43% emissions reductions by 2030.? The renewables to provide the replacement baseload power are evidently not quite ready, and a technology gap is becoming evident.
The (Coalition Party) opposition has been quick to seize the opportunity, and propose nuclear power as a clean energy option to fill the vacuum. According to its nuclear plan, the Coalition’s alternative strategy will build seven nuclear power stations at the locations of retiring or retired coal power stations around Australia to meet the baseload power demand, with the first plant to become operational between 2035 and 2037.
But will it work? And how good is it as a fix to the current net zero strategy? To establish a rational basis for an answer, one must first determine what the actual requirements are for a viable net-zero strategy.
Carrying out this simple exercise shows that the nuclear option does not satisfy at least two key requirements for a viable net zero strategy. And the hazards,? due to the highly volatile and unpredictable regional geopolitics of the region,? of building new nuclear power plants in the Pacific are too great to even contemplate.
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