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Nuclear power

August 2024

  • A Russian military guard at a checkpoint near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

    Safety at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant deteriorating, IAEA warns

    Atomic energy watchdog reports damage after Russia accuses Ukraine of dropping explosive charge nearby
  • The interior of TAE Technologies’s Norman reactor.

    Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before

    Discoveries made in pursuit of nuclear fusion have potentially huge practical applications in everything from curing cancer to superior batteries for EVs

    • Nuclear Leaks
      Sellafield apologises after guilty plea over string of cybersecurity failings

    • Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

    • Nils Pratley on finance
      How Rolls-Royce’s winning run could go on and on

      Nils Pratley

July 2024

  • Lightning strikes the cooling towers of the Tricastin nuclear complex in south-east France.

    ‘The day it goes wrong? We won’t know about it … ’: life next door to a nuclear power station

  • A low and brown-looking river flowing underneath two bridges, with office buildings or blocks of flats in the background

    From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

25 June 2024

  • Construction work on the UK nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C

    Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, analysis suggests

    Coalition proposal would cost a minimum $116bn – the same as Labor’s plan for almost 100% renewables grid by 2050, industry organisation says

24 June 2024

  • Adam Morton

    Clear Air
    The Coalition says the rest of the G20 is powering ahead with nuclear – it’s just not true

    Adam Morton
  • Health minister Mark Butler

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Labor and Greens strike anti-vaping deal – as it happened

23 June 2024

  • Former Prime Minister Paul Keating speaks to the media

    ‘Long held denialism’: Paul Keating launches stinging attack on Coalition’s nuclear power push

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton and shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien.

    Nuclear confusion: the Coalition’s power plan is becoming less and less clear

22 June 2024

  • A reactor in the backyard? What Latrobe Valley residents think of Dutton’s nuclear plan – video

    Some residents welcome the proposal, while others are fuming with outrage. Guardian Australia spoke to Latrobe Valley residents about the Coalition's plans to turn Loy Yang into a nuclear reactor
  • Loy Yang

    The cloud of coal has long hung over the Latrobe Valley. Now nuclear power is dividing it

    The valley that provides most of Victoria’s electricity also has unemployment above the state average – and the Coalition’s plan for the region has split opinion
  • Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton vows to override state nuclear bans as he steps up attack on PM

    Opposition leader tells Liberal party officials that state premiers ‘won’t stop us’ and labels Anthony Albanese a ‘child in a man’s body’

21 June 2024

  • Nuclear power plant in Czech Republic.

    Confusion reigns about the Coalition’s nuclear proposal. Here’s how the rhetoric has shifted

    We unpack the questions that remain about the Coalition’s plan – and the contradictions in their messaging
  • Karen Middleton

    There is no shortage of Coalition U-turns on nuclear. But this Aukus example might be the most remarkable

    Karen Middleton
    From the nuclear submarine pact to community vetoes, Peter Dutton has abandoned pledges the Coalition made in government with his latest announcement

    • Nuclear Leaks
      Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cybersecurity failings

    • Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened

    • Liberal frontbencher casts doubt on Coalition claims renewable energy is driving up power prices

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