Dutton’s ‘nuclear fantasy’ has been ‘torpedoed’ after damning report: Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has slammed the opposition’s"nuclear fantasy" after the CSIRO found the energy source would be far costlier than renewables and take at least 15 years to develop.

Mr Chalmers has hit out at the Coalition's nuclear plans after a CSIRO report found the energy plan to be far costlier than renewables. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman“Well I think the CSIRO has completely torpedoed this uncosted nuclear fantasy of Peter Dutton’s,” Mr Chalmers said. “The madness of this, I think, is laid bare in the CSIRO report. For Australia, we have immense opportunity in the renewable sector as the world transitions to net-zero and one of the key motivations of the budget was to ensure that Australia grabs the vast industrial and economic opportunities presented by the global net-zero transformation.”

The joint CSIRO and AEMO report comes a day after Mr Dutton strenuously defended nuclear energy when AEMO warned of heightened risks of blackouts this summer.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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