The conservatives have got back together, the country conservatives and the city conservatives, like a couple who split and had said bad things about each other, they awkwardly faced the press to announce the news.
And, apparently, their nuclear policy is back on the agenda, what I would suggest was their biggest policy they took to the last election where they were wiped out by the electorate.
Really?
Ted O'Brien, the man who cannot answer a straight question, is a true believer in the nuclear fantasy. He believes his own spin. He is high on his own supply.
He's the boring Australian Minister version of a nuclear bro.
Does he really believe, because… you know...
Dutton and most of the other LNP muppets have zero intention of actually building nuclear. Not in 10 years (as they claim). Not in 20 years (how long it would actually take).
It's just a distraction so they can keep burning gas and coal for as long as possible.
Are they are using poor old Ted? No, he must know? Just because he sounds like a useful idiot, doesn't necessarily mean that he is, I guess.
O'Brien chaired the 2019 parliamentary committee into nuclear titled "nuclear: not without your consent". The report concluded that solar is 4-6times cheaper than nuclear and that Australia should "say no to large scale reactors". You can download the report yourself. He in no way believes in this policy. He's best placed to understand how shit it is.
Why is no one questioning how, or where, the water to cool the plants is coming from.
Figures from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) show that 45% of nuclear plants use the sea for once-through cooling, and 25% use cooling towers (from water mains). 15% use lakes, and 14% use rivers (dictated by which is nearest).
The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that one nuclear reactor requires between 1,514L and 2,725L litres of water per MWh. It equates to billions of litres of water per year, and all this water requires filtering somehow.
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