Australia ‘left behind’ as govt refuses to embrace ‘obvious energy source of modernity’

Sky News host Chris Kenny says Australia is “being left behind” as our governments refuse to embrace the “obvious energy source of modernity”. “The nuclear debate continues to be low brow as the Albanese Labor government attempts to dumb down the debate and create a fear campaign about safety and costs,” Mr Kenny said. “At the very same time it actually spends more than four billion of our dollars purchasing small nuclear reactors from Rolls-Royce in the UK to power nuclear propelled submarines for our navy.” Mr Kenny said the hypocrisy was a “focus” in parliament on Tuesday. “Rolls-Royce nuclear reactors for Australian-built submarines are good and safe and cost-effective, apparently, but Rolls-Royce small modular reactors or large fixed reactors for secure, clean Australian domestic electricity would be bad and too expensive.”