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Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage project in South Australia.

Why Japan’s power plants want to bury their emissions in the outback

The start-up of a giant project to bury carbon dioxide in the desert has given Santos greater confidence as it progresses talks with Japan’s big emitters.

  • Nick Toscano

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Mining magnate Andrew Forrest has been working with experts on the uses of AI since 2019.

‘No harm to citizens’: Forrest facilitates historic US-China talks on AI, nuclear security

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has helped bring about the first public discussions between the US and China on artificial intelligence and its influence on military and nuclear security.

  • Alex Condon
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel

Dutton’s no genius – his nuclear plan is old hat

Readers respond to Christopher Pyne’s view on the Coalition’s nuclear policy, and to rising private school fees.

Peter Dutton

Dutton’s nuclear plan will never happen, but it’s still a gem of a policy

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy will almost certainly never get off the ground, but it has solved a deep and long-standing problem in the Coalition.

  • Christopher Pyne
The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley
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Australia’s major coal-fired power plant owners have doubts about the timing of Peter Dutton’s plan to transition to nuclear power.

Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.

  • Mike Foley
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will face off in Parliament on Monday with questions over flight upgrades likely to dominate.

‘He’s scared’: Dutton demands debate as Albanese taunts ‘hiding’ opposition leader

Albanese mocks Dutton for hiding from proper press conferences, but Dutton challenges the PM to a debate.

  • James Massola
Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.

Dutton said a reactor’s waste would fill a Coke can. Try 27,000 of them

Australia would face a big nuclear waste task under the opposition’s energy policy, which would generate hundreds of barrels of spent nuclear fuel a year.

  • Mike Foley

Dutton’s nuclear plans need detailed timeline

Age readers respond to the opposition’s nuclear proposals, and the retirement of Tim Pallas.

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