The Coalition is working hard to sell Australia on its nuclear plan, but expert reports like the one issued by the CSIRO this week don’t exactly help.
The boffins at the national science agency found powering Australia with nuclear power would be roughly twice as costly as renewables, it would take 15 years to deliver and a single plant would cost at least $8.5 billion to build.
When this was put to Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie on The Project last night, she questioned the “assumptions” made by CSIRO and ended up in a heated back-and-forth with host Waleed Aly.
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