Post by NFA on May 18, 2023 5:51:18 GMT 8
RE: Your correspondent from Kew
The Editor
The Australian
Your correspondent from Kew, (Letters, 18/05), repeats the assertion that “a transition toward clean energy is upon us” but there’s still no evidence of that.
No nation, state, or city has ever achieved that technologically-impossible feat – ever. Lived reality says renewables have tripled our power bills.
Nor are small modular reactors “technology in their infancy”: the USS Nautilus had one and it was launched in 1954.
Eleven EU energy ministers have signed an appeal stating the European green transformation will be impossible without zero emission nuclear energy.
Poland, France, Czechia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland, and Romania are all moving towards SMRs commercialised by companies such as GE, Rolls-Royce, and NuScale.
Nuclear energy can reduce energy costs dramatically, as Finland has just proved.
The Finns cut their bills by 75% from €245.98/MWh ($400.23/MWh) in December to €60.55/MWh ($98.52/MWh) in April by commissioning a large nuclear power plant.
Nor is energetic nuclear waste a problem: the CSIRO’s Dr Grant Douglas pioneered the EUREECA process, which stores nuclear waste safely in ceramic material.
If the activist class genuinely believed that CO2 is a threat to climate they would lobby as hard for SMRs as they do against coal.
(196 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Australian
Your correspondent from Kew, (Letters, 18/05), repeats the assertion that “a transition toward clean energy is upon us” but there’s still no evidence of that.
No nation, state, or city has ever achieved that technologically-impossible feat – ever. Lived reality says renewables have tripled our power bills.
Nor are small modular reactors “technology in their infancy”: the USS Nautilus had one and it was launched in 1954.
Eleven EU energy ministers have signed an appeal stating the European green transformation will be impossible without zero emission nuclear energy.
Poland, France, Czechia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland, and Romania are all moving towards SMRs commercialised by companies such as GE, Rolls-Royce, and NuScale.
Nuclear energy can reduce energy costs dramatically, as Finland has just proved.
The Finns cut their bills by 75% from €245.98/MWh ($400.23/MWh) in December to €60.55/MWh ($98.52/MWh) in April by commissioning a large nuclear power plant.
Nor is energetic nuclear waste a problem: the CSIRO’s Dr Grant Douglas pioneered the EUREECA process, which stores nuclear waste safely in ceramic material.
If the activist class genuinely believed that CO2 is a threat to climate they would lobby as hard for SMRs as they do against coal.
(196 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)
rmx.news/poland/the-race-for-the-polish-small-modular-reactor-smr-market-has-begun/
www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ge-hitachi-signs-contract-for-the-first-north-american-small-modular-reactor
www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/
www.nuscalepower.com/en/products/voygr-smr-plants
rmx.news/article/newly-launched-finnish-nuclear-plant-sees-electricity-prices-plunge-by-75-percent/
people.csiro.au/D/G/Grant-Douglas