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Jim Green
<em>Dr Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner with <a href="https://nuclear.foe.org.au/">Friends of the Earth Australia </a>and lead author of a <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=e6d63b51-45cb-4720-a27b-9dab61f2fe66&subId=732042">detailed submission</a> to the <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/Nuclearprohibitions/Public_Hearings">Senate inquiry</a>.</em>
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Small nuclear reactors: a history of failure
Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted but precious few will reach the construction stage and the likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible. Continue reading »
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AUKUS a cover for the Coalition’s nuclear power agenda
The federal Coalition’s dissenting report on a Senate inquiry into nuclear power claims that Australia’s “national security” would be put at risk by retaining federal legislation banning nuclear power and that the “decision to purchase nuclear submarines makes it imperative for Australia to drop its ban on nuclear energy.” Continue reading »
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The war in Ukraine: Nuclear power, weapons and winter
Six weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the death and destruction has been devastating. In addition, the targeting of nuclear power plants by Russia’s military has raised the spectre of a nuclear disaster. Continue reading »
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The endless civil war among conservatives over nuclear power
The case for nuclear power in Australia is overwhelmingly weak, but that doesn’t deter the culture warriors in the Morrison government or the Murdoch media. Continue reading »
