Renewables continue to be the cheapest new-build electricity-generating technology, while nuclear power is around twice as expensive and has “no unique cost advantages” from its long operational life, despite...
Australia’s clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines. But what about nuclear? Opposition leader Peter Dutton last month committed to building...
What are we to make of the increasing volume and intensity of competing ‘facts’ about Australia’s green energy transition, how to achieve it and at what cost? I mean,...
One of the certainties about politics is that the government should ‘control the narrative’. After all, it is the government that can make decisions of consequence; it can legislate,...
Ask anyone what drives civilisational progress and typically the answer that comes back is science and technology. It’s generally true. But technology is a second order effect of energy....
Microsoft is considering using small nuclear reactors and microreactors to power its data centres as the company looks to shore up clean energy supply in response to growing demand...
Renewables remain the cheapest new source of electricity while nuclear power is forecast among the most expensive, as all energy sources face rising costs because of supply chain pressures....
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton chose an address to the Institute of Public Affairs (the IPA) last week to renew his call to consider nuclear power stations to replace coal...
Coalition senators have accused the CSIRO of “misleading” the public on the cost of nuclear power generation, claiming it has not incorporated enough data in its modelling and its...