Nuclear, and Labor's lying lips

France's total net exports amounted to 31.1TWh in the second half of the year, with most of the power flowing to Germany (8TWh) and Italy (8TWh). In the first six months of 2023, France's net exports totalled 17.6TWh.

Sacre bleu Albo, take your Aussie tour group up to the rich agricultural areas, the vineyards, dairies and cheese factories and enjoy a bottle or three of some of the world's top wines, with a side serving of Gruyere, Camembert or Roquefort. You'll all see it's far from a nuclear wasteland and there's no three-eyed fish to be caught.

Back on the Airbus, next stop Germany, which is a great example of how a transition to renewables didn't work and manufacturing is seriously at risk, just like it's now on its last legs in Australia. Even Greens hero Greta Thunberg says you should re-open your mothballed nuclear plants.

Then off to Finland for a more pleasant experience. A big new nuclear plant beside a picturesque lake with more healthy fish: And as a result, Finns went from suffering among Europe's highest power prices to enjoying its lowest. They now pay just a fraction of what the wind and solar obsessed Germans are forced to pay for their obsession with intermittent unreliable renewables.

When Finland fired up its 1,600MW Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant in April 2023, power users were bound to notice that average spot electricity prices dropped from €245.98 per MWh in December 2022 to €60.55 per MWh hour in April 2023.

And if that doesn't impress you, just jet across the Atlantic to Canada's Ontario, the home of cheap nuclear energy which is about to expand and power many more homes:

"For decades, Canada and Ontario's nuclear technology has been world-leading, providing safe, reliable, and affordable non-emitting energy, as well as good jobs for workers, with over 75,000 hard-working Canadians employed across the nuclear supply chain. Today, the governments of Canada and Ontario are working together to advance new nuclear power generation in Ontario to cement our globally recognized competitive advantage, meet growing demand for clean energy and create even more good-paying jobs for Canadians…This funding, from the federal Electricity Predevelopment Program, involves a project that could produce power for up to 4,800,000 homes and businesses in Ontario.

Ontario has offered to sell its technology to Australia as a safe, cost-effective power source.

They are also constructing a small modular reactor which you claim don't exist commercially anywhere, even though one has been built in China, with more to follow.

Studies over many years including by The Lancet have confirmed that nuclear is the safest form of energy, despite the fear mongering. In fact, it's probably a lot safer than wind turbines and associated survey work which have been blamed for multiple whale strandings off the New Jersey Coast, deaths of hundreds of thousands of birds and bats as well as less obvious "infrasound" harm to humans and wildlife from low decibel penetrating sound waves.

"With ever larger wind turbines, the frequencies are getting lower and lower. This makes infrasound more problematic and dangerous," Dr. Bellut-Staeck told The Epoch Times.

All this should all be enough to convince any reasonable, open minded person that there should be a serious discussion on lifting the unreasonable ban on nuclear power and considering it as part of our energy mix if we want to keep the lights on and reduce emissions.

Defence Minister Richard Marles very reluctantly admitted in Parliament this week that our submariners would be safe alongside the nuclear reactors they will live with for long periods underwater when we finally obtain them under the Aukus deal. And those subs will visit and be serviced in major Australian ports. So cut the fear and smear campaign, Albo and Bowen, it's got more holes than the Titanic.

(I last wrote about the advantages of nuclear energy back in June 2019 after Labor lost that unlosable election. About the only thing that's changed from my perspective is the government.)