bogarde73 wrote on Mar 10
th, 2014 at 10:53am:
Nobody it seems.
There are expected to be three times as many reactors operating in China in 2022 (59) as there were in 2013 (19). It is projected that India will go from 21 reactors to 36.
Japan -JAPAN! - is going to restart its reactors.
France gets 75% of its power from nuclear.Dozens of countries have reactors.
If you want to reduce carbon emissions and maintain base load, nuclear is the only option.
Australia has all the uranium the rest of the world wants, but there is not one politician with the guts to stand up and say we should build a nuclear power station. Instead they would rather piss around with expensive and useless renewables.
Yep it shows that the Left heads aren't serious about reducing CO2 concentrations.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-out-of-step-on-nuclear-20090910-fhrj.html
Quote:Australia is alone among advanced countries thinking it can meet deep greenhouse reduction targets without a nuclear power industry, the head of the Federal Government's nuclear agency, Ziggy Switkowski, has said.
Dr Switkowski, who chairs the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, told a business meeting in Melbourne that even current non-nuclear neighbours Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam were planning to build nuclear power stations.
''I'm not aware of any country that accepts the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions deeply, that has rejected nuclear power as part of its future energy mix. Australia stands alone in claiming we are different, that we have available a whole range of alternatives that will get us to our target.
''It is ambitious, but the numbers don't work.''
Dr Switkowski's address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia came the day after doubt was thrown on two of the technologies most favoured as green alternatives by the Federal Government.
On Monday the company building Australia's largest solar power station went into receivership, and a Four Corners investigation found clean coal technology was not getting off the ground - and even if viable might be 30 to 40 years off.
Dr Switkowski said the cost of nuclear power stations was coming down and the time to construct them in some countries was as short as four years. He said Australia should aim to have 50 operating by 2050, which would supply 90 per cent of energy needs and meet greenhouse targets.
He warned that Australia's economic stability would suffer if we abandoned the reliable but highly polluting electricity supply from coal and thought we could supplant it with unreliable sources such as wind or untested technology such as clean coal.
He said the only country that had nuclear power and had done away with it was Italy, which shut down its nuclear industry after the Chernobyl power station in the former Soviet Union exploded after an experiment in 1986.
Dr Switkowski said Italy now had to import most of its electricity, much of it from France, which is 80 per cent nuclear and has electricity prices 60 per cent cheaper than Italy.
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