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  1. Taxpayers are usually the ones who are on the hook for nuclear -- especially cleanup or accidents. #PriceAndersonAct

    Coalition's #nuclear plan is 'virtually impossible' without #taxpayer funding

    David Chau
    June 16, 2024

    "Earlier this year, Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto told ABC Radio Melbourne that he did not support the construction of nuclear reactors in the #LaTrobeValley, the site of existing coal-fired power stations.

    "Queensland's Liberal-National leader David Crisafulli said nuclear was not on his agenda 'because it just won't happen until Canberra sorts that out'.

    "Some of the most vocal opposition has come from New South Wales' former Liberal treasurer Matt Kean, who dismissed nuclear as 'hugely #expensive' and a 'Trojan horse' for the #CoalIndustry.

    In addition, the nation's leading "scientific body, the CSIRO, says it would take at least 15 years to build a large-scale #NuclearPowerPlant — and it would cost twice as much to produce electricity through nuclear reactors when compared with #renewable sources."

    msn.com/en-au/money/news/exper

    #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NoNukesAustralia

  2. Federal Opposition climate spokesperson Ted O’Brien suggests #LaTrobeValley, and #Anglesea on the Surf Coast in Victoria considered for nuclear power plants. Despite huge costs of nuclear power increasing electricity prices and #costofliving, and more than a decade to develop, and opposition by local communities.

    #Auspol #Australia #dontnuketheclimate
    #ClimateCrisis

    abc.net.au/news/2024-02-26/nuc