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Chris Bowen says nuclear energy is slow, expensive and risky'

Chris Bowen is also asked about the latest CSIRO report released today, showing electricity from nuclear power in Australia would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind.

CSIRO and Aemo have looked at large-scale nuclear for the first time. It finds that that would be far more expensive than renewables, despite claims from the opposition - quite inappropriate attacks on CSIRO and Aemo from the opposition, that they hadn't counted the cost of transmission. The cost of transmission and storage is counted, and still renewables comes out as the cheapest.

And of course, CSIRO points out that nuclear will be ... very slow to build. So nuclear is slow and expensive and is risky when it comes to the reliability of Australia's energy system.