Prime Minister Scott Morrison has long signalled he was open to ending a ban on nuclear power in Australia.
He made it clear he would do anything to bring power prices down, but stressed the economic case for nuclear power “would have to stack”.
His response was a clear repudiation of an international UN report which called for coal-fired power generation to be phased out by 2050.
Morrison’s nuclear power reality causes apoplexy among green-eyed climate dragons, but it makes perfect sense.
Australia has abundant uranium deposits, which antinuclear activists insist must remain in the ground lest they be used for perfectly peaceful purposes...
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