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More coal and gas, less renewables: what a nuclear power plan for Australia would really mean
My latest in The Conversation
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Friendly fire
a nuclear push by allies at COP29 poses a sticky problem for Albanese
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Czech nuclear deal shows CSIRO GenCost is too optimistic, and new nukes are hopelessly uneconomic
My first article for RenewEconomy
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Be careful what you wish for
The third in the famous trilogy of spurious Chinese curses that begins with “May you live in interesting times” is “May all your wishes come true”.
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Dutton’s decaying nuclear energy plans have the briefest half-life
Every time the opposition leader starts down the nuclear path, he hits another dead end.
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On nuclear, Coalition prefers the optimism of misleading, decade-old, unverified claims
The Coalition is a fan of quoting the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's optimism on nuclear timelines compared to the CSIRO. But…
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Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal
My latest in The Conversation
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Geopolitics has already doomed the second nuclear renaissance
I worked up a pitch for a full-length opinion piece, but haven’t placed it.
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French Lesson: we don't need nuclear power, we need a new Pierre Messmer
That was my suggested headline for my latest piece in Crikey, which ran under the sub-editors (blander IMO) choice of “We don’t need a nuclear…
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Dutton wants Australia to join the “nuclear renaissance”
– but this dream has failed before
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Why nuclear power won’t work in Australia
Yet another explainer
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Another nuclear renaissance?
And did environmentalists kill the last one?
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