Nuclear power has long split the nation. Australia came close to embracing it in the late 1960s when the-then Liberal prime minister John Gorton proposed the construction of a nuclear power plant at the Jervis Bay Territory on the south coast of NSW. The project was ultimately abandoned, but the debate raged on and it's been reignited by the federal Opposition.
" "There are two types of nuclear power generation," Emeritus Professor Ken Baldwin, an energy expert at the Australian National University, says. "One is conventional, large scale, reactors which traditionally, are the same sort of size as coal and gas-fired power stations, or even larger. "Their main issue is you need several of them to cover the gaps for routine maintenance and downtime. Plus they are not readily rampable.
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