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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
What about nuclear? We have a ****load of uranium, its a clean energy source and we have a lot of barren wasteland to dispose of its waste in.
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There is no political will. The other issue is we would insist on doing it all ourselves because 'jobs', even though we have no track record/experience in doing so. The sensible approach, and cheapest/safest would be to engage the South Koreans to build one of their turn-key systems. On budget and on time.
It would make sense to do so. We will lose 14GW of generation capacity as we close coal power plants over the next 20 years. We could build 10 of the APR1400 1.4GW nuclear plants. Alternatively, we'd need 500sq km of solar farms, or 3500 sq km of wind farm.