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ANTWERP, BELGIUM - JUNE 5: The 'Vision', a Dutch Cargo ship sails on the Scheldt river in front of the Doel nuclear power station on June 5, 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. The Doel nuclear power plant has four pressurized water nuclear reactors (PWR), operated by ENGIE-Electrabel in the municipality of Beveren-Waas. Its four reactors were commissioned between 1975 and 1985. The Doel nuclear power plant has a total power of approximately 2900 MWe. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

What Australia can learn from Trump’s NEC initiative

There seems little doubt that Trump’s new NEC will be aiming to demonstrate and expedite the further development of nuclear power facilities in the US.

Robert Pritchard

CommentaryMining & Energy

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. SpaceXâs billionaire owner, Elon Musk, a Trump confidante, has been tapped to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump parts company with Australia on energy

Donald Trump’s nomination of Chris Wright as the new US secretary of energy is a signal that Australia should align itself with what the US is planning.

Robert Pritchard

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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