Australia has plenty of insolation and most power consumers are packed densely enough not to worry about the upkeep of large grids.
Aside from uranium, we also have a much more plentiful thorium to use as a fission fuel. We definitely are not running out of that. But, thorium power plants can be more expensive, and byproducts of thorium cycle are less valuable, so it’s worth comparing that to running a renewables-based grid again.
I think the liberal party also made the proposal for nuclear energy really bad on purpose in order to avoid it actually having a measurable impact in reducing fossil fuel emissions in the forceable future.
Australia has plenty of insolation and most power consumers are packed densely enough not to worry about the upkeep of large grids.
Aside from uranium, we also have a much more plentiful thorium to use as a fission fuel. We definitely are not running out of that. But, thorium power plants can be more expensive, and byproducts of thorium cycle are less valuable, so it’s worth comparing that to running a renewables-based grid again.
I think the liberal party also made the proposal for nuclear energy really bad on purpose in order to avoid it actually having a measurable impact in reducing fossil fuel emissions in the forceable future.