Major investors are increasingly willing to plough their billions of dollars into Australian renewable energy,but have little desire to go nuclear.
Nuclear power,as clean and safe as it is,cannot help us in our transition to clean energy this decade or next.
Australians would pay the highest carbon price in the world if the opposition’s plan to transform our energy system around nuclear is adopted.
Rather than offer a genuine solution on energy,the opposition leader is attempting to avoid two fights:one with Labor,the other within the Coalition.
Australia’s biggest coal-fired power plant operator has ruled out taking part in the Coalition’s plan to build nuclear generators at its sites.
Voters seem more open to nuclear power,but experts warn the support will quickly evaporate,and the risk is that the debate could delay the renewables rollout.
The top science agency’s chief executive defends his agency’s work that found renewables or fossil fuels make cheaper electricity than nuclear power
WA’s Energy Minister Reece Whitby is no fan of nuclear energy,deeming it “expensive,slow,inflexible and unpopular”. Nor is the leader of the WA Liberals.
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The climate change minister said the Coalition’s energy policy crumbles like a “Sao in a blender” after it claimed Australia could have nuclear power in 10 years.
Nuclear power is being touted as the solution to our energy woes. But even if nuclear is safer than ever before,the business case for it doesn’t stack up,according to this academic.