Antinuclear

Australian nuclear news headlines 23- 30 September

Headlines as they come in:

• Marles, with all pretension, flogging a dead seahorse.
• Indonesia, Solomon Islands join countries banning nuclear weapons, putting Australia at odds with neighbours
• Nuclear Concerns – Hiroshima, Maralinga and Dutton’s Australia .
• Memo to Dutton: It’s the final quarter, you’d better start kicking
• Renewable and Energy storage jobs will soon overtake those in coal and gas
• Nuclear Costs ‘In Due Course’
•   Pro-nuke spin has a $377 billion price tag of government funding.
  Stuck on repeat: why Peter Dutton’s ‘greatest hits’ on nuclear power are worse than a broken record.
•  Australians are installing batteries at a record rate, as rooftop solar heads for major new milestone.
• Dutton’s nuclear plan would mean propping up coal for at least 12 more years – and we don’t know what it would cost
• Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean contradicts Peter Dutton’s claim on nuclear and renewables working together.
• Households surge ahead in rooftop solar as renewable projects break bottleneck 
•   Dutton’s truth-sounding nuclear power arguments are for generating impressions, not information. 
•  Dutton’s baseload nuclear plan shows he does not understand energy systems, Bowen says.

And as coal power makes its way out of the mix, solar continues to grow, with a total installed capacity of 1.3 GW added so far this year – or 141,364 systems – taking the share of rooftop PV in the national electricity mix to 11.3 per cent, as of the end of June.

September 24, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized