This Month
- Exclusive
- Renewables
Australia doesn’t need nukes: International Energy Agency boss
Global energy tsar Fatih Birol says Australia should play to its strengths in renewables, and there should be less emotion and politics in energy discussions.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Exclusive
- Renewables
‘A big risk’: Voters wary of nuclear replacing coal-fired power
Voters in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley have raised the spectres of Chernobyl and Fukushima when asked about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan to build large-scale reactors in their community.
- Tom McIlroy
Nuclear power: Could we? Should we?
This week on The Fin podcast: Ben Potter and Jacob Greber on Dutton’s atomic bet, the economics of nuclear energy and whether the AI revolution changes the debate.
April
Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply
Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.
- Ben Potter
- Updated
- Cloud
NextDC boss says nuclear should be on table as AI sucks up energy
The country’s largest listed developer and operator of data centres is raising $1.3 billion to expand its operations amid a boom in demand for computing power.
- Updated
- Tess Bennett
Dutton’s nuclear plan ‘very competitive’: poll
Just over half of Australians back Peter Dutton’s nuclear ambitions, but the support drops when respondents are asked about a possible plant in their region.
- Tom McIlroy
March
IFM Investors steers clear of nuclear projects
The $217 billion group believes energy security is important, but its investments don’t extend to nuclear projects.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Opinion
Nuclear vs Renewables shouldn’t be Ford vs Holden
Reducing the complexities of national energy policy to a clean energy brawl is the last thing Australia needs in the middle of the biggest industrial rebuild in the nation’s history.
- Matthew Warren
- Opinion
- Electricity
How much could you save if you went nuclear?
If you are a Victorian the price you’d pay for a unit of electricity from a nuclear reactor would be 39 per cent higher than what you’ll pay under the recently unveiled regulated default offer.
- Tristan Edis
Western nations ‘too optimistic’ on nuclear, warns engineering chief
The chief executive of Atkins Realis says more planning is needed to stop cost blowouts and delays, ahead of the first global nuclear energy summit.
- Alice Hancock
Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque said the company would apply for a construction permit from US regulators this month for its reactor, cooled with liquid sodium.
- Jamie Smyth
New Hope asks NSW for coal extension, backs nuclear
New Hope chief Rob Bishop reckons the world will want coal for a long time to come, and nuclear is the only hope of net zero emissions.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Dutton’s nuclear plan is all politics
The opposition is more interested in keeping the Nationals in the tent than carbon emissions at bay.
- Craig Emerson
- Analysis
- Investing
Why Hostplus is doing the UK differently
Super funds are pumping money into big, solid infrastructure plays in the UK, but Hostplus has picked out an Oxford nuclear fusion start-up.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s nuclear push could take on political life of its own
The zero-emissions power source adds up on some fronts, but there’s still a whiff of crazy about the whole push.
- Phillip Coorey
Victorian premier goes nuclear on Dutton’s energy policies
Jacinta Allan says Coalition nuclear energy supporters have spent too much time watching The Simpsons.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Dutton’s nuclear plan has more politics than science or economics
Readers’ letters on the Coalition’s push for nuclear power; four-year fixed terms for parliament; and the use of reputation managers by business leaders.
Nuclear power is the only way: Dutton
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the only way to meet Australia's energy goals is through nuclear power.
- Updated
Coalition will seek a social licence for nuclear: Dutton
Communities will be consulted and “incentivised” to adopt nuclear power, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says.
- Phillip Coorey
Support for nuclear power edges up, ahead of coal: AFR poll
The Coalition faces a steep challenge convincing voters to back its alternate plan, with solar and wind remaining significantly more popular than nuclear.
- Tom McIlroy
