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The Coalition goes nuclear
Follow The Money
English - March 27, 2024 06:50 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPolitics News Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
After scarcely mentioning it for nearly a decade while in government, the Coalition are now hot to trot on nuclear power – but why?
On this episode of Follow the Money, energy researcher Matthew Ryan and host Ebony Bennett discuss the cost of a massive nuclear energy rollout, the legal and environmental barriers standing in the way and why the Coalition’s plans would be dreadful for Australia’s emissions in the coming decade.
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Guest: Matthew Ryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Australia Institute // @mattdjryan
Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett
Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey
Additional editing: Emily Perkins
Theme music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
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