Peter Dutton says people will be “pleasantly surprised” when they finally see the price tag for the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan. The Opposition Leader on Wednesday released some details of the plan the Coalition had been flagging for months but did not put a price on it. He said againContinue Reading
Labor frontbencher Jason Clare has jumped on reports that nuclear energy could send electricity bills soaring by up to $1000 a year as the government defends using memes with three-eyed koalas to attack the Liberal’s new policy. Liberal leader Peter Dutton announced this week he wants Australia to go nuclear,Continue Reading
NSW Premier Chris Minns has led the call from state leaders denouncing Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plans to build seven nuclear reactors across the country. On Wednesday, the Liberal leader made an election pledge to build at least two of the government-owned nuclear plants between 2035 and 2037 at existingContinue Reading
The European Union will forge ahead with the development of small modular nuclear reactors with a view to deploying them by the early 2030s, its energy commissioner has stated, as the Albanese government shuns the uptake of the technology. While not explicitly weighing in on the proposal to develop nuclearContinue Reading
Peter Malinauskas says the nuclear debate has been hindered by “unpragmatic ideology” as he warned adopting nuclear power would be a “burden” on consumers. As the federal opposition ramps up plans to release details of the nuclear energy plan it intends to put to voters at the next election, theContinue Reading
Federal politics is currently debating the usefulness of nuclear power versus renewables. As usual, the debate is replete with hysteria and rubbery figures designed to evoke high emotion and partisanship over reason and good policy. The debate began when Energy Minster Chris Bowen released figures this week indicating that theContinue Reading
Replacing Australia’s retiring coal-fired power stations with the Coalition’s suggested nuclear energy model would cost taxpayers up to $387bn, new modelling suggests. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, backed particularly by junior Coalition partners the Nationals, has previously suggested that Australia could “convert or repurpose coal-fired plants and use the transmission connectionsContinue Reading