Adelaide residents blindsided by decision to store AUKUS nuclear waste at submarine shipyards
Last month legislation quietly passed the federal parliament that will allow for the storage and disposal of nuclear waste at…
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Plan to dispose of nuclear waste from Aukus submarines unanimously rejected by Adelaide council
Plans to dispose of low-level nuclear waste from Aukus submarines at an Adelaide naval facility have been unanimously opposed by the local…
United Nations to study impact of nuclear war for first time since 1989 amid ‘elevated risk’
The United Nations will set up an expert panel to investigate how nuclear war would impact all facets of society….
Indonesia, Solomon Islands join countries banning nuclear weapons, putting Australia at odds with neighbours
Indonesia, a country of 275 million and one of Australia’s closest neighbours, is stepping up efforts to enforce a global…
Compelling Economics of Renewables Unmask Fossil Fuels and Nuclear
Due to lower cost and higher efficiency, the IPCC has stated that renewables, particularly solar and wind, are ten times…
Ontario’s huge nuclear debt and other things Dutton doesn’t understand about cost of electricity
It seems our alternative Prime Minister Peter Dutton’s favourite topic is your electricity bill. Given how much he talks about…
Let’s be clear, Peter Dutton’s energy plan is more focused on coal and gas than it is on nuclear power
It seems reasonable to call the Coalition’s policy what it primarily is: a proposal to expand fossil fuels Some news…
Pushing nuclear power in Queensland would be ‘hugely messy’ for a future Dutton government, constitutional law experts say
A clear line in the sand divides Queensland’s new Liberal National government from the federal Coalition on the topic of…
Michiko’s story: How a Japanese girl survived an atomic bomb
As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo – the organisation of Japanese atomic bomb survivors – Michiko…
‘You couldn’t make this up’: Expert pans Ontario nuclear option
Ontario subsidises its citizens’ electricity power bills by $7.3 billion a year from general revenue, an international energy expert has…
How conservatives aim to nuke us all
The current pro-nuke lobby that is now spreading its influence in Australia had its start a year ago in a…
Should we be looking to Ontario’s nuclear energy solutions here in Australia?
Peter Dutton often makes reference to how successful Ontario’s nuclear transition has been, but is that really the case? Professor…
SBS report: The inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia
Federal public servants have told a parliamentary committee it would likely take at least a decade for Australia to have…
Union slams “false hope” in nuclear push, warns energy jobs at risk
Queensland’s sparkies have been warned of the “huge risk” to thousands of jobs in renewable energy posed by nuclear plans….
Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury
National Audit Office questions value for money as predicted bill for decommissioning increases by £21bn Europe’s most hazardous industrial site…
Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants
Climate Change Authority chair says Peter Dutton’s energy policy would drive up electricity bills and deter investment in renewables Extending…
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton heckled by protesters opposed to building a nuclear power station in Collie
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been met by angry protesters in Collie, who oppose his plan to build a nuclear…
Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why
Queensland Premier Steven Miles this week declared his party would hold a plebiscite on nuclear power if it returns to…
Coalition claims of a nuclear power renaissance in UK further expose its shameless policy con
A cursory look at the international experience is enough to expose the LNP’s shameless con, designed only to disrupt and…
Nuclear plant ‘will decimate fish stocks’
The company building it accepts fish will be killed in its system, but wants to create new habitats. Proposals for…
Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia
The House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy was established by a resolution of appointment that passed the House of Representatives on 10 October…
“Differences of opinion:” Queensland state LNP insists it will not sign up to Dutton’s nuclear plan
They might be friends but Peter Dutton and his Queensland state counterpart David Crisafulli are a long way off agreeing…
If Peter Dutton has a better understanding of the cost of building nuclear, then let’s see it
Two weeks ago, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis released a report analysing how much electricity prices and…
Nuclear Concerns – Hiroshima, Maralinga and Dutton’s Australia
It’s abundantly clear in these past months, courtesy certainly of the Murdoch press, the present Opposition Leader has a fascination…
Dutton’s nuclear plan would mean propping up coal for at least 12 more years – and we don’t know what it would cost
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan relies on many of Australia’s coal-fired power stations running for at…
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan still has no costings, and no grid connection: It’s a political hoax
Unusually for a CEDA event, there was only a scattering of corporate table sponsors – ANZ, KPMG, and Clayton Utz…
Peter Dutton refuses to divulge costs of going nuclear at anticipated ‘could it work’ speech
Coalition’s lack of costings and absence of detail has been seized upon by critics of Australia’s potential landmark energy shift….
Dutton’s truth-sounding nuclear power arguments are for generating impressions, not information
The opposition leader keeps bypassing questions over the cost of his energy plan – while leaning on little more than…
Nuclear would add hundreds to power bills and leave half of energy needs unmet, reports claim
A United States think tank suggests power prices would rise in Australia by hundreds of dollars if it adopted the…
Global status report highlights parlous state of nuclear power sector
DR JIM GREEN Nuclear’s share of global electricity generation declined from 9.2 percent to 9.1 percent in 2023, little more…
Coalition’s nuclear plan to switch off solar for up to 3 million homes
New analysis from the Smart Energy Council shows the introduction of seven nuclear reactors to Australia will shut down solar…
Evaluating nuclear power’s suitability for climate change mitigation
The article’s primary argument centres around the unresolved technical and human risks of accidents and proliferation, which are unlikely to…
Record weeks for renewables blow up Dutton’s nuclear con
The record high of low-cost wind and solar in the grid comes as we are still waiting for the costing…
The anti-wind farm groups pushing the nuclear option to rural Australia
Conservative economists, lobbyists, commentators and energy boffins have descended on regional communities nominated by the Coalition for nuclear sites, in…
Putin’s war is raising risk of another Chernobyl, says historian who inspired hit TV show
Serhii Plokhy’s account of the 1986 disaster stunned readers and TV audiences. Now his new book warns that the threat…
The Coalition has turned its renewable energy denial into a nuclear roadmap to nowhere. It’s exhausting
“It says a Dutton government would take steps to slow viable electricity generation coming into the system while the system…
Peter Dutton’s nuclear lies
A fact-check of the media release of June 19, where Peter Dutton announced that a future Coalition government would introduce…
WA government rejects Dutton’s push to lift uranium mining ban
Western Australia’s mines minister has rejected calls from federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton to overturn the state’s long-standing ban on…
Nuclear Power in Australia – it’s absurd
Nuclear power may seem attractive to voters as a way to easily meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets. However, having…
Nuclear means choosing drinking water, irrigation or power: Miles
Queensland Premier Steven Miles was keen to build on the reputation his government has created in rural parts as a…
Dutton praises Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power?
There’s a community in Ontario called Dutton which, right now, seems appropriate given the number of times Peter Dutton has…
Thousands of Aussie farms in ‘ingestion zone’ under proposed nuclear plan threatening food production
The federal government has claimed that under an opposition-proposed nuclear plan, more than 11,000 farms would fall within a nuclear…
Solar industry sees first projects put on ice as nuclear proposal sows doubt among investors
First signs of viable jobs available in the short-term in the regions to be put on the line as a…
Communities at proposed nuclear sites launch joint Campaign against Dutton’s “half baked Idea”
Community organisations from the seven regional communities where Peter Dutton proposes to house nuclear reactors today launch a regional community…
Czech nuclear deal shows CSIRO GenCost is too optimistic, and new nukes are hopelessly uneconomic
Taking the Czech announcement as a baseline, building two to four 1000 MW nuclear plants in Australia would probably cost…
Joint Ministerial Statement on Nuclear Reactors on Agricultural Land
Agriculture Ministers of the Governments of Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia…
Chris Bowen -Nuclear would ‘wreck’ renewables
Mr Bowen warned a move to nuclear energy would “wreck the renewables rollout” and leave Australia with more expensive and…
Hidden costs? Cheaper energy? ‘Farcical’ locations? Debunking the hype around nuclear.
One of the biggest claims the Coalition makes is that nuclear energy could bring down the price of electricity in…
CSIRO chief executive says Peter Dutton’s comments on energy report ‘corrode public trust in science’
Earlier this year, the national science agency released its annual GenCost report, which found powering Australia with nuclear energy would…
French nuclear giant scraps SMR plans due to soaring costs
The French nuclear giant EdF, the government owned company that manages the country’s vast fleet of nuclear power stations, has…
Nuclear more costly and could ‘sound the death knell’ for Australia’s decarbonisation efforts, report says
Analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says even if nuclear is successfully implemented it would be ‘at least four times’…
New analysis: Nuclear reactors a disaster for climate emissions
New analysis has found the impact on climate change of attempting to adopt nuclear reactors in Australia would be the equivalent…
Australia will not come close to net zero by 2050 under Coalition’s nuclear plan
Analysis shows that the Coalition’s nuclear strategy, if it met its stated aims, would see nuclear plants account for approximately…
When it comes to power, solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade
The Economist produced a special issue, titled Dawn of the Solar Age. The June 22 2024 solar special issue. Whereas nuclear…
SURF Coast residents gathered at Anglesea Community House to voice their opposition to nuclear power last week.
The Australian Conservation Foundation facilitated the meeting, where campaigner Rastko Antić noted the strong community sentiment against having a reactor…
Hidden costs? Cheaper energy? ‘Farcical’ locations? Debunking the hype around nuclear.
Dutton told the Today show on 21 June: “In Ontario, for example — they have 60 per cent nuclear in…
CSIRO chief executive says Peter Dutton’s comments on energy report ‘corrode public trust in science’
The GenCost report is produced annually by the Australian Energy Market Operator, and projects the cost of electricity generation and…
Nuclear energy creates the most dangerous form of radioactive waste. Where does Peter Dutton plan to put it?
A CSIRO analysis last month showed there is no economic argument for nuclear energy in Australia, even without considering the…
Coal will no longer be burned for power in Australia within 14 years.
The lowest cost way to give us electricity in the future is renewable energy, connected with transmission and distribution, firmed…
Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up?
We take a look through the biggest of those talking points to see whether they stack up. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD…
The Coalition says the rest of the G20 is powering ahead with nuclear – it’s just not true
So much has been said by the Coalition about what nuclear energy could do for Australia, with so little evidence…
Nuclear goes backwards, again, as wind and solar enjoy another year of record growth
Nuclear power’s share of global electricity generation has fallen to 9.2 percent, its lowest share in four decades and little more…
Dutton races to the polls with coal-to-nuclear fantasy
Tony Barry, former deputy state director of the Victorian Liberal Party, describes the Coalition’s decision to make nuclear power the centrepiece of…
Coalition “in a panic” about response to confused and unpopular nuclear power plan
An unnamed Coalition MP said of the Liberal and National Party rooms: “My read is they’re in a panic about…
Divide and squander: Dutton wants seven nuclear power plants, the first by 2035
Imagine being able to call a press conference and just make stuff up for half an hour on the most…
Peter Dutton reveals seven sites for proposed nuclear power plants
What a debacle. Peter Dutton just announced 7 nuclear reactors for sites around Australia. He doesn’t know how much it’s…
Dutton’s big nuclear plan: “A serious joke” that is mad, bad and dangerous
So, here it is, finally, the Coalition’s nuclear policy – a massive and dangerous boondoggle to build expensive nuclear power…
‘Nuclear energy won’t stop cows from burping’: Peter Dutton needs a plan that goes beyond the electricity sector
At least this one wins the most creative headline competition. It’s true: even if nukes were cheap enough to build…
Nuclear reactors ‘will be in National party seats’, Littleproud says
We’re getting warmer, as the Liberals and Nationals inch closer to disclosing where they plan to target for nuclear power….
Dutton confirms nuclear push and climate denial go hand in hand: The pretence has gone
Here it is, mask off: Dutton intends to use nuclear power as a weapon to kill renewable energy. So, let…
Coalition to dump Australia’s 2030 climate target, arguing 43 per cent emissions reduction is unachievable
Abandoning the target would also mean withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. The Coalition argues Labor will fail to meet the…
Opposition’s nuclear-energy policy would increase defence risk
This is an angle that many people won’t have considered: The Australian Liberal-National opposition’s proposal to build nuclear power stations…
Dutton calls for mature debate on energy future
…and then brands people who disagree with him as “childish.” We sure are looking forward to this mature debate! Anyway…
If regional communities don’t want a windfarm, why would they accept a nuclear power station?
Quick answer: they won’t. The Coalition’s energy policy is leveraged on regional discontent about renewables. But many farmers don’t want…
Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check
When the industry lost faith in the gargantuan costs of building big reactors, some of them seized on the possibility…
Where Aussie nuclear reactors would be: MSN Newswire
“Australians “won’t have to wait long” to find out if the Coalition plans to build a nuclear reactor in their…
RenewEconomy: “We haven’t been consulted:” Coal town on transition to renewables is not interested in nuclear
“A Western Australian coal town lined up as a potential site for a nuclear power station by the federal Coalition…
The Fifth Estate: “Inside the nuclear influence machine”
Is the push for nuclear power in Australia more stalking horse for coal than a genuine alternative for a clean…
CSIRO releases 2023-24 GenCost report
Each year, CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) collaborate with industry stakeholders to update GenCost. This leading economic…
Climate Council news brief: Nuclear power stations are not appropriate for Australia – and never will be
Periodically, as with the changing of the seasons, various individuals appear in the media singing the virtues of nuclear energy…
Peter Dutton’s nuclear push is a “suicide note” playing mostly to right wing echo chambers
The pro-nuclear bias of the Murdoch media is plain for all to see, and has been confirmed by a recent academic…
Nation’s science agency CSIRO hits back at Dutton claim that nuclear power costings were ‘discredited’
It’s pretty rare for the CSIRO to make such an intervention, but maybe they’re as sick of Peter Dutton’s crude…
ABC News: Coalition’s plan to go nuclear puts five regions on the table as favoured locations for nuclear reactors
“There are just a handful of regions in Australia shaping up as the most likely candidates for the Coalition’s proposal…
Coalition’s nuclear SMR poster boy cancels flagship project due to soaring costs
“NuScale, the controversial proponent of nuclear small modular reactor designs that has been championed by the federal Coalition and technology…
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