The Coalition says the remainder of the G20 is powering forward with nuclear – it’s simply now not true | Adam Morton

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The Coalition says the remainder of the G20 is powering forward with nuclear – it’s simply now not true | Adam Morton

The opposition claims Australia is an outlier in the developed world in not having nuclear, yet Germany and Italy have closed their plants

So much has been said by the Coalition about what nuclear energy could do for Australia, with so little evidence to back it up, that it can be hard to keep up with the claims.

The key assertion by Peter Dutton and Ted O’Brien is that nuclear would lead to a “cheaper, cleaner and consistent” electricity supply. None of this has been supported.

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