Nuclear

The UAE Barakah nuclear plant is considered by some a poster child of the nuclear renaissance. The costs to build with western labour would be 7 times more expense due to wages paid to migrant wages.

Wind is much cheaper than nuclear electricity in the UK and yet UK is considering small nuclear as well. Economic stupidity and unwillingness to face up to reality.

Many proponents of nuclear energy ignore the economics and try to dismiss them. Uranium is limited – estimated that if the world was all nuclearl, only 4 years of current supply. The cost to extract lower % uranium becomes prohibitive.

Uranium mining for nuclear power and for nuclear weapons continues to have geopolitical implications along with the energy needed to refine the uranium to be used. there are 15 nuclear myths including SMR, waste, and subsidies. The availability of uranium drives the future of the nuclear energy industry; an upper limit on uranium prices will

Nuclear is often touted as clean but published studies show that it is worse than wind and can be as high as gas.

Waste from nuclear power plants is about 2kg per person per year. Small nuclear reactors, often promoted as a solution have 2 to 10 times that of conventional. Only Iceland has managed to develop a solution and billions are spent each year by all nuclear powers.

France is the poster child of nuclear, but that is a myth. Dig the numbers out and it is a huge financial burden on Frence taxpayers with hundreds of billions of liability.

Small power from rooftop solar and batteries and not nuclear is the best. Nuclear was suggested would be too cheap to meter but is too costly to remember.

Nuclear SMR Reactors are small and modular and it is proposed they overcome 2 of the conventional nuclear issues, cost and refuelling. In reality, they are still a decade or more away from commericalisation and the value is yet to be confirmed.

The conclusion is clear: Nuclear power not a sensible option. It fails on multiple front – technology, economic and political, yet the industry continues to push for nuclear as a viable option for decarbonisation in the next 20 years.