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If it did take more than 25 years to build a nuclear power plant then the technology could be made obsolete by renewables.

Last October, South Australia managed for the first time to get more than 100 per cent of its electricity needs for a working day between 9.30am to 6pm, from a combination of wind and solar energy. Overall it gets more than 30 per cent of its power from renewables, and has a target of 50 per cent to be achieved within 10 years.

Prof Diesendorf said it would only take 15 to 20 years to go to 100 per cent renewables in the state.

“The global enrichment market is oversaturated, and no-one credibly believes nuclear power is a realistic proposition for the sparse South Australian grid,” Greens senator Scott Ludlam argued in a column for New Matilda.

 “That leaves only the probability that this whole exercise…

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