DoomsdaysCW<p>Taxpayers are usually the ones who are on the hook for nuclear -- especially cleanup or accidents. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PriceAndersonAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PriceAndersonAct</span></a> </p><p>Coalition's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> plan is 'virtually impossible' without <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayer</span></a> funding</p><p>David Chau<br>June 16, 2024</p><p>"Earlier this year, Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto told ABC Radio Melbourne that he did not support the construction of nuclear reactors in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaTrobeValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTrobeValley</span></a>, the site of existing coal-fired power stations.</p><p>"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'.</p><p>"Some of the most vocal opposition has come from New South Wales' former Liberal treasurer Matt Kean, who dismissed nuclear as 'hugely <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/expensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expensive</span></a>' and a 'Trojan horse' for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalIndustry</span></a>.</p><p>In addition, the nation's leading "scientific body, the CSIRO, says it would take at least 15 years to build a large-scale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a> — and it would cost twice as much to produce electricity through nuclear reactors when compared with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renewable</span></a> sources." </p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/experts-say-the-coalition-s-plan-to-build-nuclear-reactors-is-virtually-impossible-without-taxpayer-funding/ar-BB1okqEt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-au/money/news/exper</span><span class="invisible">ts-say-the-coalition-s-plan-to-build-nuclear-reactors-is-virtually-impossible-without-taxpayer-funding/ar-BB1okqEt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesAustralia</span></a></p>