Minister Chris Bowen, dismisses nuclear power saying that: โ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐งโ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐, ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฐ๐โ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ก.โ So lets not do it.
The point with this is that apart from hearing him run this undergraduate SFS argument before, it is just patently absurd because within the context of the energy debate, up until about twenty minutes ago, we didnโt have a solar or windmill energy industry either and we were โstarting from scratchโ.
AND as a point of fact Australia does indeed have a successful nuclear energy industry at Lucas Heights in southern Sydney.
ย The โstarting from scratchโ argument applies to literally everything that never existed before.
There is always that first moment of turning the first sod and breaking new ground.ย If we all ran with the Bowen “starting from scratch” philosophy nothing would ever get started in the first place. In 1788, the entire Australian project started from scratch!!! The yet to be opened western Sydney airport started from scratch only 5 years ago, in 2018.
Starting from scratch is being deployed as very flakey, and extremely lame political excuse for doing nothing. And if thatโs it, if thatโs all they have, that we don’t have a nuclear industry because we’d be starting from scratch, then lets start if from scratch.
And when it comes to locating SMR (small modular reactor) nuclear generation on existing coal fired power sites, the network infrastructure is already in place so youโre not starting from scratch at all.
As far as insults to the intelligence are concerned the SFS debating point is about as infantile as it gets. But then we are talking about Chris Bowen.
But to the broader point on energy we need to be constantly reminded that
Western Civilization and our society and the opportunity it has afforded us over the last 150 years has been built on the back of cheap, abundant, and reliable energy and what the climate cult wants to impose on us is that they want, by design, for your energy to be less reliable, less abundant and more expensive โฆ.
Apart from flying in the face of reason and logic, just think about how anti human and twisted that is and what it says.
Its says those dollars in your pocket, that you were planning to spend on your families health, housing and education or upgrading your personal life whether it be a baby, a new car or maybe a home renovations, the government wants to curb your ability to improve your lot by deprivingย you of that money and those benefits and upgrades to your quality of life and in fact to deliberately degrade your quality of life and have ย you pay more for something that is NOT reliable or available when you need it, NOT abundant and NOT cheap..
When you strip it all back that is what theyโre promising. That is the policy.
Dear Jim,
On your 0000-0530 show more than 10 years ago, you often talked about the imementaion of small modular reactors.
As reported in various media sources, Microsoft will be implementing nuclear modular reactors to power its AI cloud facilities.
Notice of the implementation of small modular reactors came from a job advertisement for a rile in strategic planning of its nuclear power facilities.
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/microsoft-plans-to-use-nuclear-power-for-data-centres.html#:~:text=Microsoft%20is%20planning%20to%20start,Principal%20Program%20Manager%20Nuclear%20Technology‘.
It is interesting to note that this newer modular reactors require a more refined version of uranium.
At the moment, Russia is the largest supplier of this resource.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring
And we’re sticking to the 1970s dream.
Thank you
Anthony of Strathfield South