Disclaimers, Basis of Preparation & Sources

Australian legal status of civilian nuclear power

Civilian nuclear power generation is currently prohibited in Australia. There is no lawful approval pathway for a civilian nuclear power reactor. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) s140A prohibits the Minister from approving an action consisting of or involving the construction or operation of a nuclear power plant, and the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998 (Cth) s10 prohibits the CEO of ARPANSA from licensing certain nuclear installations, including a nuclear power plant. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania impose additional state-level prohibitions.

Accordingly, every Australian scenario in this suite is a hypothetical “what-if” model. Nothing in this suite represents that deployment of a Unity Battery, or of any nuclear generation technology, in Australia is lawful, approved, planned, imminent, or the subject of any application. No view is expressed on whether the law will change, or when.

Basis of preparation

Each module states its formulas in full and lists every constant it uses, with that constant’s value, unit, vintage, source and source link. Constants are classified so that a reader can see the evidentiary weight of each figure at a glance:

• Independently sourced — from a government, regulator, or published third-party source, with a link.
• Company-stated, unverified — a Deployable Energy planning figure. No independent engineering, cost or schedule review has been completed. There is no operating commercial unit from which actual costs could be derived.
• Project-specific sensitivity, not a default — derived from internal project research, materially different from published benchmarks, and available only as an explicitly labelled opt-in.
• Display-only context — national or market context that must never drive a calculated output, and does not.
• Requires independent refresh — a known data gap. Where the gap is material to a whole module, that module is gated.
• User-entered assumption — supplied by you, not by us, and not a sourced constant or a forecast.

Where a comparison is drawn, it is drawn against the diesel case you enter, or against the independent remote-mine diesel electricity benchmark of A$240–450/MWh. No like-for-like comparison is made against the National Electricity Market, utility-scale solar, wind, or renewables plus storage, because no comparable study supporting such a comparison is presented here.

Every module excludes material cost and risk categories, which are listed on each page. Because of those exclusions, no module is a total cost of ownership study, a feasibility assessment, a valuation, or a basis for any commercial or investment decision.

The published Australian counterpoint

CSIRO’s GenCost analysis puts small modular reactor levelised cost in Australia in 2030 at A$328–619/MWh, and large-scale nuclear at A$173–288/MWh, against an average National Electricity Market generation price of about A$104/MWh (CSIRO GenCost 2024-25 Final Report, GenCost 2025-26 media release). Those published figures are materially less favourable to nuclear generation than Deployable Energy’s own planning figures. They are stated here because a reader is entitled to see the leading published Australian counterpoint alongside anything in this suite.

Nature of the calculator outputs

All outputs are arithmetic on the inputs you select and are illustrative only. They are not forecasts, quotations, savings, payback periods or investment returns. Carbon values are illustrative valuations of avoided emissions at a stated price reference, not a representation that carbon credits or revenue exist. Figures attributed to Deployable Energy are that company’s own stated figures and have not been independently verified. Constants are current to the date shown in each module’s source table.

Legal notices

This suite is intended only for wholesale clients within the meaning of sections 761G and 761GA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and is not intended for retail clients.

It contains general information only, which does not take into account your objectives, financial situation or needs.

It is not an offer of securities, a disclosure document under Chapter 6D or a Product Disclosure Statement under Part 7.9 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

It contains forward-looking statements and scenarios based on assumptions that may not prove correct; actual results may differ materially.

Deployable Energy Funds Management Pty Ltd (ACN 701 592 350 | ABN 38 701 592 350) is a Corporate Authorised Representative (CAR No. 1322961) of Deployable Energy AFSL Pty Ltd (ACN 122 284 888), holder of Australian Financial Services Licence No. 478547. Deployable Energy is a separate company and does not issue or manage the Fund. See the full Disclaimers.

Privacy

Every calculation in this suite runs entirely in your browser. No input you enter is transmitted, stored, or logged, and no personal or financial information is collected by these calculators.

Sources

Each module carries a complete constants-and-sources table listing every figure it uses, with value, unit, vintage, evidentiary classification and a link to the source. Those tables are the authoritative record of provenance for this suite:

• Module 1 — diesel replacement cost and CO₂
• Module 2 — grid-extension avoidance
• Module 3 — noise comparison
• Module 4 — carbon abatement value
• Module 5 — mining site total cost of ownership
• Module 6 — data-centre diesel replacement
• Module 7 — Australia’s Nuclear Advantage context panel

Primary legal sources: EPBC Act s140A and ARPANS Act s10, both via AustLII.