Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust | Temperature Check

Coalition's claim of cheap power and quickly built reactors is at odds with real world experience of other countries

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We may not yet be entering a nuclear age in Australia, but we would all be best advised to handle the rhetoric around the issue as carefully as we would radioactive waste.

This week opposition leader Peter Dutton said an annual CSIRO report that had included estimates of costs for small modular reactors - which are not yet available commercially - was discredited" because it doesn't take into account some of the transmission costs, the costs around subsidies for the renewables".

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