Peter Dutton is set to announce his long-awaited nuclear energy policy including several proposed sites and has called an unscheduled meeting of the shadow cabinet to finalise the plan. News.com.au has confirmed that the Liberal leader plans to announce two to three sites where he wants to see nuclear energyContinue Reading
Peter Dutton has again refused to reveal key details on the Coalition’s nuclear power policy, declaring he would consider announcing his alternative 2035 emissions reduction goal if the government released modelling on interim climate targets. In a fiery interview on Sunday with Sky’s Sunday Agenda host Andrew Clennell, the federalContinue Reading
Australians “won’t have to wait long” to find out if the Coalition plans to build a nuclear reactor in their backyard, with policy and possible locations to be announced soon. The Coalition won’t be drawn on reports it is set to announce the locations of up to seven proposed powerContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has attacked the coalition for failing to reveal key details of its controversial nuclear energy policy, which now looks be delayed until the end of the year. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s reply to the federal budget last Thursday omitted key details of the signature energy policy, including theContinue Reading
A top Australian engineer has warned the country’s power grid is unstable and incapable of coping with surging demand – and has proposed a controversial solution. Adi Paterson is the former chief of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demanding urgentContinue Reading
Japan will release water from the stricken Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 12 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. Japan insists that the gradual discharge of the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water from the site in northeast Japan, announcedContinue Reading
Australia poses such a risk to Russia that it is rushing to build next-generation “victory” weapons in response. Or so the story goes. “We are increasing production of the most powerful means of destruction, including those based on new principles,” former president Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday. “Our enemy dug inContinue Reading
The US Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a “major scientific breakthrough” this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved aContinue Reading