Ferdi Magellan“Why is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?”
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“But what the critics say is Australia has no civilian nuclear power industry, we're starting from scratch. And as yet, the commercial viability of these small reactors has not been proven. There is not yet one commercially operating in the world. “
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“Hi everyone, about a minute on bad news in the US nuclear power sector. Yesterday, new scale power and the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems announced they were cancelling plans to build a new scale reactor or set of reactors at a site in Idaho.”
“And the reason it was kaput was that, It was considered not commercially viable. I was reading an account from Bloomberg, and the response of the former head of that project was, this is a dead horse and we've got to get off it. But now, this did not deter the advocates.
“The charity C4C had paid for all these key Coalition people to go to the big UN climate summit last November in Dubai. According to Ted O'Brien, he was there because he'd had an invitation from the World Nuclear Association to speak at the conference and C4C was the host of the meeting where he spoke there. So that coming together of this, what had been a sort of rather obscure environmental charity in Australia with the Coalition nuclear policy, I think it said a lot. And it said to me the Coalition knows they need advocates out there pushing the nuclear policy, because at the moment in Australia there is no real social licence for it.”
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“Matt Kean says supporting nuclear is an attempt to delay and defer responsible and decisive action on climate change. It's an attack on his federal counterparts, who've made nuclear power a key part of their energy plan.”
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/the-lobbyists-behind-peter-duttons-nuclear-promise
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The lobbyists behind Peter Dutton’s nuclear promise
It’s a small mystery in Australian politics: Why was Peter Dutton’s first major policy as opposition leader a promise to build nuclear power plants? On the surface, it doesn’t seem like an obvious vote winner and early polling shows most Australians are yet to be convinced. But this may be less about votes and more about holding the Coalition together, with the help of a lobby group most of us have never heard of.
Robert Fairhead
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