Rolls-Royce says the AUKUS security agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the US paves the way for Australia to embrace small modular nuclear reactors.
“With AUKUS, Australia has now got a new opportunity in front of it. If you are going to embrace nuclear as part of your defence program, then you would be the only country that had done so and did not then fully exploit a commercial, civil nuclear program,” Samson said. “While Australia has one third of the world’s uranium supplies, it has limited its nuclear capacity to a single world-class medical research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney.”
In 2019, a majority-government parliamentary committee recommended the consideration of small modular reactors for Australia in the future, but only with bipartisan and public support.
latikambourke No coincidence. CEO of RR SMR division: The technology is the same as that used to power Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet. Macron: Without civil nuclear power, no military nuclear power, without military nuclear power, no civilian nuclear power.
latikambourke oh o ,and it looks like arkys was set up to sell us nuke power sans submarines ,[ call james bond ]
latikambourke homes can power themselves ,its industry and transport that need heavy duty continuous power ,what is the demand in giga watts and how much will it cost to power it in renewables and nuke power ,and how fast ,will either meet the deadline ,choices have to be made now ,not next we
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latikambourke “Rolls-Royce believes it could begin building its first reactor in 2030 if it is given regulatory approval.” Get back to us in 2030 with a quote
latikambourke nuke power has the capacity to deliver the electricity now demanded to power the economy and therefore our consumer indulgent society ,,at what cost ,had the investment in renewables been directed into nuke power where would we be now ,that is the question ,cost ,
latikambourke Latika ...Rolls Royce are doing their sales pitch to the world for this very expensive project. AUKUS has nothing to do with civilian nuclear power production. Australia is not permitted to receive any US military nuclear tech according to US law.