It’s 2025 and BOOM BOOM we’re back baby! LMSU returns with a double nuclear paper spectacular, featuring special guest Alison Reeve!
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After an extended summer vacay, Team LMSU is back - and not a minute too soon! The spidey senses of the folks at the Climate Change Authority must have been tingling and with a BOOM dropped their analysis ‘Assessing the impact of a nuclear pathway on Australia’s emissions’ on the very morning we recorded this episode.
Joined by sometime co-host and sensible energy expert superhero Alison Reeve, the crew digest this little amuse bouche: over 1 billion tonnes of extra emissions! The cost of pursuing Frontier Economics’ nuclear pathway is quite the emissions mouthful.
Sidebar nerd alert: reverse engineer graphs just like the CCA folks with this handy tool: https://www.graphreader.com/
Our main paper
In act 2 of our double nuclear paper spectacular, the LMSU crew takes on the intercontinental ballistic market outlook ‘The Path to a New Era for Nuclear Energy’ from the folk at the International Energy Agency. And Hooo-eeeee are they bullish! Their numbers don’t lie though and it’s more of a ‘let a thousand reactors bloom’ kinda sentiment than a bona-fide BOOMtime for nuclear’s share of the global pie. Our take? It’s 25 years to net zero, we got 80 SMR designs and a drive to cut costs through standardisation and sequencing. Hit It?
Aaaaand because we couldn’t get nary enough NUKES this week, after we recorded, the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy released its Interim report for the inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia. Bon appetit!
One more things
Alison’s One More Thing is: a recent Carbon Brief analysis that shows clean energy contributed 10% of China’s GDP in 2024. Exactly the kind of good news we could stand to see more of!
Tennant’s One More Thing is: would a Border Carbon Adjustment be a poke in the eye of a newly belligerent USA? (Rather less than the GST!)
Frankie’s One More Thing is: speculation that the implementation of the 2025 version of the National Construction Code will remain uncertain, especially with the Productivity Commission’s recent report recommending an independent review of building regulations.
Luke’s One More Thing is: that 2025 will see the delivery of sweet, delicious BoCo dessert every fortnight alongside the main course of regular episodes. Head on over to patreon.com/LetMeSumUp to make sure you don’t miss a bite.
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