Four Corners: Oct 7
Eric Campbell travels to the USA to find out if Australia should go all in on a controversial energy solution.
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Monday’s Four Corners report “Nuclear Gamble” by Eric Campbell looks to questions around Australia’s proposal to increase nuclear energy.
Is nuclear a viable answer to Australia’s energy woes or is it a quixotic quest never to be realised?
Peter Dutton says without nuclear we’ll never reach net zero, yet his own party’s former leader, Malcolm Turnbull, says it’s a “dangerously stupid” idea.
Many say the answer lies overseas – in countries that have already embraced nuclear as a part of their energy puzzle.
In Nuclear Gamble, reporter Eric Campbell travels to the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world and the place where atomic energy all began – the United States of America – to find out if we should go all in on this controversial energy solution.
Monday 7 October at 8.30pm on ABC.
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Exactly who proposed going all in on nuclear power, other than Campbell of course. Nobody. Even the UK is only building 24GW of nuclear, with lots of wind and some solar and tidal. We will have a nuclear industry though, for propulsion, medical treatments, diagnostics. Whether it makes sense for power generation depends on how the small modular reactors Rolls Royce, Sweden and Canada are making work out.