A "bold but unpopular vision" for nuclear or was it just bullshit?<p>I'd go for the latter, so Australia wasn't getting nuclear either way.<p>What they had a chance for, and may now get, is vaguely sensible policy to continue their renewable rollout which is, in some aspects, world leading.
The debate moved from safety to economics. The economics only worked if you wanted to continue gas and coal for two more decades.<p>7 nuclear sites in an economy with only a swimming pool reactor for research and nuclear medicine, projecting the most favourable cost of construction worldwide.<p>Most people saw this as cynical, a move by coal and gas mining interests.<p>Is nuclear energy safe and useful? Probably. It was a terrible fit for this economy. It should have started 40 years ago.<p>Possibly, arguably this is why the LNP lost but mostly I think, Trump cost them the election. This nuclear thing was a classic city country divide: a lot of mining, fly in fly out heavy engineering workers liked it. City dwellers Not.