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Nuclear Battle to Resume as Coalition Doubles Down on Dutton’s Push
The Coalition considers lifting Australia's nuclear ban and investing in small modular reactors to meet rising energy demands amid a US nuclear power resurgence.
- On Thursday, Shadow Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Dan Tehan said the Coalition is reviewing its energy policy and has left the door open to reviving nuclear power in Australia.
- Dan Tehan returned from a US fact-finding trip and was struck by microreactors generating between 1-20MW, meeting US nuclear experts during September.
- The Coalition's policy, which is now under review, aimed for renewables 54%, nuclear 38%, and storage/gas 8% by 2050, with seven planned reactor sites, while modeling estimated costs at $330 billion.
- Debate in the Coalition intensified as Barnaby Joyce, Matt Canavan, Andrew Hastie, and Jacinta Price push to ditch the policy while state premiers and energy companies refuse cooperation and funding remains unclear.
- With the next election in mind, the Coalition plans to campaign on nuclear despite this year's loss, while the Australian Conservation Foundation warns of protests and Labor rejects nuclear for renewables and gas.
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Nuclear battle to resume as Coalition doubles down on Dutton’s push
Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan has declared there is overwhelming support for nuclear energy in the Coalition despite its thumping election loss.
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psnews.com.auCoalition won't be cutting its nuclear energy policy loose
Shadow Energy Minister Dan Tehan is keen for the Coalition to retain a nuclear energy policy. Photo: Dan Tehan Facebook. The Coalition is bringing back its nuclear energy policy because, well, that’s not why it lost this year’s federal election anyway. That seems to be the uptake from Shadow Energy Minister Dan Tehan’s just completed nuclear facilities tour of the United States. The Liberal Party frontbencher is undertaking a review of the Coali…
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