Comment by ViewTrick1002

Or you know. We can just build renewables and storage without any of that risk? Where regular bog-standard commercial insurance is good enough to cover the risk.

We want to phase out oil both for the carbon emissions, and because how nasty it is to deal with in terms of spills. You do know that the oil industry is one of few other industries that also has liability caps due to the potential damage?

Why are you so hellbent on wasting risk and money on a dead-end technology that does not provide anything valuable to a modern grid?

You still haven't answered:

Why should South Australia build a nuclear plant?

They have a grid swinging between a weekly average of 65-85% renewables in the midst of winter with almost every day hitting at least a portion of 100% renewable electricity in the mix.

That is where all grids globally are headed, and will be long before a single new built nuclear reactor project started today would come online in the 2040s.

If you can't answer that question for South Australia then you agree that nuclear power is entirely unfit to be built today.