Federal Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Ted O’Brien, has outlined the two reasons why there is a business case for nuclear power in Australia.
It comes after Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party unveiled a national nuclear plan on Wednesday, with seven locations announced for nuclear power plants around the country.
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General Manager of Plastic Fabrications, a plastics manufacturer based in the Latrobe Valley, Peter Ceeney, welcomes the discussion of nuclear power after Traralgon was announced as one of the locations for a nuclear power plant.
But there is one thing that he is “really concerned” about at the moment.
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Thing is, if you have nuclear you don’t need anything else. With wind and solar there’s no guarantee they’ll run 100% of the time – so the risk of outage is there. Furthermore a nuclear plant will run 80-100 years while wind turbines and solar in particular will last much less.