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Nuclear EnergyRenewable energy & economy

The Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Sizewell, UK, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The UK government will invest an additional ÃÂ£1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) to build theÃÂ SizewellÃÂ C nuclear plant to try and entice private investors to back the project. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ban on nuclear power holding Australia back

The UK and Australia harbour ambitions to be ‘clean energy superpowers’ but they are going about it differently, and nuclear remains a point of difference.

Robert Pritchard

CommentaryMining & Energy

(FILES) This file photo taken on February 18, 2015 shows a worker of Russian gas and oil giant Gazprom working in Novoprtovskoye oil and gas condensates oilfield at Cape Kamenny in the Gulf of Ob shore line in the south-east of a peninsular in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, 250 km north of the town of Nadym, northern Russia. With its oil output at record levels and state coffers running low, Russia has little to lose and much to gain from agreeing a deal with the OPEC cartel on limiting production. Ahead of an OPEC meeting set for November 30 in Vienna, Moscow -- which is not a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries -- is pushing for an agreement to be finally reached after similar talks in Doha collapsed acrimoniously in the spring. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREY GOLOVANOV

Implications of Putin’s European energy vandalism

Australia needs a diversity of energy sources and technologies, and it should begin by removing the proverbial Putin foot from its throat and repeal our ban on nuclear power.

Robert Pritchard

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