The Coalition talks so much about its nuclear energy plan but provides so little evidence

Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton and shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien. Their assertions that nuclear power would ‘cheaper, cleaner and consistent’ have not been back by evidence.Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton and shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien. Their assertions that nuclear power would ‘cheaper, cleaner and consistent’ have not been back by evidence.

It’s a point that has been raised to imply a bigger point: that nuclear energy is flourishing elsewhere and Australia is out on a limb by not having it., following through on a commitment after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan to accelerate it’s shift away from atomic power. It was the end of a nuclear power industry that had operated since the 1960s.

Italy, Europe’s third biggest economy, also had a nuclear industry from the 1960s, but shut its plants in 1990 after a referendum. Its current right-wing government has suggested it But it is evidence that the Coalition’s claim that nuclear energy is “used by 19 of the 20 biggest economies”, as Dutton put it last week, is misleading.tells us there is no global wave of nuclear energy investment or construction. Global generation peaked in 2006, dipped after the catastrophe in Japan and has more or less flatlined since.

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