Thankyou. Canada is to be congratulated on its CANDU program and the contribution this has made to human welfare around the world. It is heartening that Canada is planning to continue on with its nuclear program. Australia would have no energy issues and could easily decarbonise if it had three or four Darlington scale plants to carry baseload and supply industry (notably steel and aluminium) in the eastern half of the country. While Australia has good renewable prospects it is faultering in the rollout and provision of the necessary storage and power distribution; particularly that needed for industry. Its also clear with the current climate cycle (La Nina) solar and wind will need to be significantly overbuilt to cope with climate variability. Australia will eventually adopt large as cale nuclear in the eastern half of the country. SMRs will play a roll, most likely in parts of Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. However, there is a lot of resistance to nuclear in Australia, particularly from fossil fuel interests. It will likely take an energy precipitated economic crisis, and/or large scale loss of what industry we have left, before anything happens.
These people have bankrupted Canada and Ontario. The government gave Stellantis $15 billion to build a $500 million battery plant in Windsor, Ontario. And VW is on the verge of dropping out of EVs and going out of business. And he doesn't mention that this small reactor is 300 mW and put in a bay designed for a 850 mW reactor. Canada has 1.6 million immigrants coming in each year in a country of 35 million. That's like America allowing in 16 million a year. I live in Toronto and we don't have enough electricity to keep my plant operating. We had to shut down twice in September when it wasn't even hot and before people got home from work and started using electricity. He says our nuclear is low cost. My electric bill has gone from $30 every 2 months to 110% a month. These technically incompetent salesmen can say even one word that is truthful.
Great to see Ontario move forward as Nuclear leader..however the EV battery plants will be a disaster already the consumer & the automakers are moving away from EV
Turn around and run as fast as you can. Everything this guy says is sales speak. He says our steel mills have gone net zero by using electric arc furnaces and then mention the mill in Sue Saint Marie and says they're drawing up plans. That's not the same thing as having done the switch over.
All the more argument for going Nuclear. Don't forget the nightmare that we experienced before the Conservatives came to power. There was a lot of opposition for nuclear power in Canada coming from the same thinkers that foolishly ended nuclear in Germany. Now we are finally waking up. Building both full scale reactors and SMR's in Australia would be awesome for the economy. I am cheering for our Aussie brothers and sisters - cheers from Ontario, Canada.
I wrote a long comment and youtube deleted it. I wanted to say that if power goes out the used fuel in the cooling ponds goes into meltdown and you have 10,000 Chernobyls. You really trust these lawyers?
Union workers and pervailing wage requirments are usually the best way to have public projects built. As long as there is true competive bidding on the projects higher paid workers usually insure that skilled competent workers do the work. While these workers may cost more per hour they usually have higher productivity in their work because they have higher skill levels. Another effect of a higher skilled workforce is fewer mistakes in constrution and higher quality work. In my opinion conservatives that are opposed to public projects requiring union or prevailing wage are actually not doing the public any favors.
If the plan is to build 4 SMRs at Darlington and the first i expected to be ready at end of 2028/early 2029, when are the rest planned for? When is it planned to actually start building at Darlington?
@@dodaexploda They have not published a timeline? I can understand they do them in sequence with a little overlapping, to keep the supply chain "warm".
@@kimmono I'm not sure if they have done so or not. I think they are currently at the stage of finalizing the engineering. So all of the small details. I believe this results in an updated budget and timeline. Then building would be starting from that point. So I don't think we'll get a timeline until this engineering is done.
What a pleasure to listen to the great man himself.
The Minister was pretty good too.
Thankyou. Canada is to be congratulated on its CANDU program and the contribution this has made to human welfare around the world. It is heartening that Canada is planning to continue on with its nuclear program.
Australia would have no energy issues and could easily decarbonise if it had three or four Darlington scale plants to carry baseload and supply industry (notably steel and aluminium) in the eastern half of the country.
While Australia has good renewable prospects it is faultering in the rollout and provision of the necessary storage and power distribution; particularly that needed for industry. Its also clear with the current climate cycle (La Nina) solar and wind will need to be significantly overbuilt to cope with climate variability.
Australia will eventually adopt large as cale nuclear in the eastern half of the country. SMRs will play a roll, most likely in parts of Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
However, there is a lot of resistance to nuclear in Australia, particularly from fossil fuel interests. It will likely take an energy precipitated economic crisis, and/or large scale loss of what industry we have left, before anything happens.
These people have bankrupted Canada and Ontario. The government gave Stellantis $15 billion to build a $500 million battery plant in Windsor, Ontario. And VW is on the verge of dropping out of EVs and going out of business.
And he doesn't mention that this small reactor is 300 mW and put in a bay designed for a 850 mW reactor. Canada has 1.6 million immigrants coming in each year in a country of 35 million. That's like America allowing in 16 million a year.
I live in Toronto and we don't have enough electricity to keep my plant operating. We had to shut down twice in September when it wasn't even hot and before people got home from work and started using electricity.
He says our nuclear is low cost. My electric bill has gone from $30 every 2 months to 110% a month. These technically incompetent salesmen can say even one word that is truthful.
Sounds all great... And now, it's time to hit those
Great to see Ontario move forward as Nuclear leader..however the EV battery plants will be a disaster already the consumer & the automakers are moving away from EV
HELLO FROM AUSTRALIA , BIG SUPPORTERS OF THE CHANNEL & NUCLEAR POWER
Turn around and run as fast as you can. Everything this guy says is sales speak. He says our steel mills have gone net zero by using electric arc furnaces and then mention the mill in Sue Saint Marie and says they're drawing up plans. That's not the same thing as having done the switch over.
All the more argument for going Nuclear. Don't forget the nightmare that we experienced before the Conservatives came to power. There was a lot of opposition for nuclear power in Canada coming from the same thinkers that foolishly ended nuclear in Germany. Now we are finally waking up. Building both full scale reactors and SMR's in Australia would be awesome for the economy. I am cheering for our Aussie brothers and sisters - cheers from Ontario, Canada.
I wrote a long comment and youtube deleted it. I wanted to say that if power goes out the used fuel in the cooling ponds goes into meltdown and you have 10,000 Chernobyls. You really trust these lawyers?
@@richardstever3242 Much appreciated
Former US navy reactor operator here. Would love to come operate a CANDU!
Wish we had leaders like this in Australia
Ok so like- kinda wanna work for the podcast. Canadian, nuclear advocate, young adult and politically active. What else do I need 😂
we need CANDU here in Australia!!!
However, I would prefer large, grid-scale units than SMR - but either will do!
SML reactors are the best.
Small, Medium and Large ones.
Lol over time but on budget. Good closer
Union workers and pervailing wage requirments are usually the best way to have public projects built. As long as there is true competive bidding on the projects higher paid workers usually insure that skilled competent workers do the work. While these workers may cost more per hour they usually have higher productivity in their work because they have higher skill levels. Another effect of a higher skilled workforce is fewer mistakes in constrution and higher quality work. In my opinion conservatives that are opposed to public projects requiring union or prevailing wage are actually not doing the public any favors.
I wonder if Smith is from a prominent political family. Just a hunch based on a facial resemblance.
Previous Liberal govt caused energy & economic disaster in Ontario
"We need you" lol sure just how does one get by all those unions
Two brilliant gentlemen on the screen at the same time. Love it!
This was a great interview!
If the plan is to build 4 SMRs at Darlington and the first i expected to be ready at end of 2028/early 2029, when are the rest planned for?
When is it planned to actually start building at Darlington?
They are doing them in order. So building one, stop and learning lessons. Then building the next one. It's a slower process but the best for success.
@@dodaexploda They have not published a timeline?
I can understand they do them in sequence with a little overlapping, to keep the supply chain "warm".
@@kimmono I'm not sure if they have done so or not. I think they are currently at the stage of finalizing the engineering. So all of the small details. I believe this results in an updated budget and timeline. Then building would be starting from that point. So I don't think we'll get a timeline until this engineering is done.