Labor’s AUKUS embrace negates nuclear waste argument: Dutton
The Albanese government’s embrace of the AUKUS security pact has denied it the use of nuclear waste arguments against Peter Dutton’s atomic energy plans, the Coalition says.
Defending plans to establish seven nuclear power plants across Australia by 2050, opposition energy and climate change spokesman Ted O’Brien said the AUKUS pact required the government to establish a high-level nuclear waste dump to take the spent reactors from the submarines.
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