ANALYSIS: Australia has major uranium reserves and exports about one-third of global production but has no nuclear power. That could change if there is a new Government in 2025.
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Maria Slade.
What's at stake: Will Australia develop a domestic nuclear energy industry?
Background: Opposition Peter Dutton has released a risky plan for Australia to build nuclear power plants. He says renewables are too costly and that nuclear is the cheapest and best way to achieve the country’s net zero by 2050 target.
Main players: Peter Dutton, Anthony Albanese, major power generation companies such as Energy Australia, which is owned by Hong Kong’s CLP.
Australia’s ongoing culture war on climate change has gone nuclear.
If Peter Dutton’s Liberal National Coalition wins the next Federal election, due by 2025, Australians will have voted for a government that has a policy of introducing nuclear power into the energy grid.
This would overturn
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What's at stake: Will Australia develop a domestic nuclear energy industry?
Background: Opposition Peter Dutton has released a risky plan for Australia to build nuclear power plants. He says renewables are too costly and that nuclear is the cheapest and best way to achieve the country’s net zero by 2050 target.
Main players: Peter Dutton, Anthony Albanese, major power generation companies such as Energy Australia, which is owned by Hong Kong’s CLP.
