When Twiggy Forrest, Private Eye, The Financial Times and Bloomberg all describe why nuclear power is not the answer you have to wonder why Peter Dutton can’t hear the message.

Why Dutton doesn’t was nailed by Forrest at a recent National Press Club address where he said: “If you think that nuclear came out of nowhere, no, it didn’t. It’s been pushed by the fossil fuel sector as a great way to delay the whole country for 20 years from switching over to fossil fuels forever.

“If we swallow this new lie that we should stop the rollout of green energy and that nuclear energy will be our fairy godmother, we will be worse off again….. I do know how to do projects. I do know the science. And I do know the economics. These misinformed, unscientific, uneconomic, plucked-out-of-thin-air bulldust of nuclear policies of politicians masquerading as leaders helps no-one,” Forrest said.

The new Hinkley Point project in the UK is a classic example of why nuclear is ‘bulldust’.

For many years Tory UK Governments have not been able to build a garden shed without massive cost overruns and there would be doubt about whether it would be fit for purpose or even actually completed. Train lines, new trains, hospital projects and others have faced massive cost overruns and delays.

But Hinkley is something else again. It is not actually being built by a government agency but outsourced to the French company EDF. The Financial Times (17/2) explains the complicated corporate problems involved........

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