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Nuclear power is a non-starter - there’s a bigger problem to fix
Arguments about nuclear power won’t help the urgent problems of the energy transition, with a growing gap between reality and Australia’s renewable energy plans.
Jennifer HewettColumnistPolitical brawling over the viability of small nuclear reactors as a partial replacement for Australia’s coal-fired power generation is another distraction for a struggling energy industry for this decade at least.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has been as keen to denounce the high cost and technical uncertainties of building small nuclear reactors as the Coalition’s Ted O’Brien is to promote their potential to solve the dilemma of energy shortages meeting climate change ambitions.
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