Peter Dutton dismisses the latest analysis from the national science agency. Here’s what it says about energy costs – and the opposition’s criticism
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The national science agency has released a report reaffirming the likely high costs of nuclear power in Australia, at the beginning of a week when the Coalition has promised it will finally reveal the cost of its controversial plan to build taxpayer-funded reactors.
The CSIRO’s GenCost report, produced annually in collaboration with the Australian Energy Markey Operator (AEMO), has attracted criticism – some of it extreme – by nuclear advocates who argue reactors would cost much less, and be built much quicker, than the CSIRO says.
