Nuclear energy
Yes in my backyard: Nationals happy to go nuclear
Nationals MPs are backing deployment of nuclear power in their electorates as the Coalition pushes for a coal to nuclear technology shift.
- by Mike Foley and James Massola
Latest
Fusion power breakthrough repeated in California lab for second time
Scientists have known for about a century that fusion powers the sun and have pursued it on Earth. Such a breakthrough could one day help curb climate change.
How dangerous is it having Europe’s largest nuclear reactor in the middle of a war zone?
The Zaporizhzhia power plant has become a chess piece in the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a prized chip it is unwilling to relinquish.
- by Lucy Cormack
‘Blown out of proportion’: How Robert Oppenheimer knew the atomic bomb test wouldn’t end the world
The long, strange history of what came to be known as the “atmospheric ignition” scenario has been distorted over the years, and the movie distorts it further.
- by Mark Johnson
Summer to heat up power prices, cost-of-living pressures
A looming El Nino weather system is forecast to add to the Albanese government’s challenge in delivering its promise to slash power bills by 2025.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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Climate policy
Bowen attacks Dutton as ‘alternative PM from the alt-right’
The climate change minister will accuse the opposition leader of representing fringe-right views in a speech attacking Coalition support for nuclear energy.
- by Lisa Visentin
How 500 swimming pools’ worth of water has sparked a panic buy of salt
Twelve years after a tsunami struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, more than one million tonnes of radioactive water is to be released into the ocean. Is it safe?
- by Lucy Cormack
Japan to get crucial UN support to release Fukushima water into ocean
Japanese fishing unions, Beijing and New Zealand are among those who have raised concerns about the plan to dump the treated radioactive water into the Pacific.
- by Sakura Murakami
Sweden dumps renewables target as it seeks more nuclear power
The country has changed its legislated climate targets to 100 per cent “fossil-free” energy – meaning no coal or gas – by 2040 and carbon-neutral by 2045.
- by Rob Harris
