Australia mistakenly included on list of countries joining US-UK civil nuclear deal, British government says
by Adam Morton in Baku and Sarah Basford Canales from World news | The Guardian on (#6SATD)
Albanese government denies media reports it is signing up to collaboration to share advanced nuclear technology
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The UK government has conceded that Australia was mistakenly included on a list of countries that were expected to sign up to a US-UK civil nuclear deal.
The Albanese government flatly denied media reports on Tuesday that it would join the UK and the US in a collaboration to share advanced nuclear technology. The UK and the US announcement said they would speed up work on cutting-edge nuclear technology", including small modular reactors, after inking a deal at the Cop29 UN climate summit in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.
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