Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. If you take the cost that is being spent to ensure the safety of those reactors in the nuclear powered submarines and you apply that cost to civil nuclear reactors, which those opposite are suggesting, what you end up with is the single most expensive source of power that can be purchased in the world, in this country today. That is what those opposite are seeking to put before the Australian people.

The idea that you would try to draw some equivalence between small nuclear reactors, which are powering a single machine, and what those opposite are trying to suggest about nuclear reactors which are designed to power cities is patently ridiculous, and it's the kind of analysis which underpins the ridiculous thought that those opposite are trying to put on the Australian people.

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