Coalition’s nuclear power plan is ‘economic insanity’, Jim Chalmers says on eve of major Dutton speech
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Coalition plans to build seven nuclear power plants are economic insanity", Jim Chalmers has said, in the lead-up to a speech by Peter Dutton that is expected to provide new details of the policy.
The federal opposition has outlined plans to build seven nuclear reactors across five states, should it win the next election, with the first to be built by 2035 to 2037 at the earliest.
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