Dutton’s position here as many have pointed out is to stall and not actually to build nuclear.

I think nuclear has a place as we need to move the world off carbon ASAP (That place basically being India and China where there is a lot of dirty coal that needs to be shutdown ASAP).

If we really wanted to do something nuclear I’d suggest working on building modular reactors that we can build in factories and deploy to places where its harder for renewables to make sense, that said i’d wager a better financial proposition would be to invest in alternative renewables, say more tidal technology. If we want to support the pacific being able to provide tidal power generation seems like an easy win, that also provides significant political influence (which waned under the last conservative government).

Now if i was a National i’d be pushing for lots of renewables in the country, all that construction and those jobs supporting the new infrastructure, and yet they don’t…