Let’s talk nuclear, the Coalition says – just don’t mention cost or how long it would take | Graham Readfearn

The pace at which you could theoretically deploy the small modular reactor being advocated would mean sitting on your hands until at least the end of the decade

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The Coalition appears to have landed on a neat solution to decarbonising Australia's electricity grid - just swap out the coal plants for nuclear.

Writing in the Australian newspaper, the shadow climate change and energy minister, Ted O'Brien, said such a plan would reduce the need to spend billions on new transmission lines that would connect solar and windfarms to the grid.

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