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

I thank the member for his question. This is a question in a series that have been asked by the honourable member which is trying to draw some equivalence between nuclear-powered submarines and a civil nuclear industry. The short answer to the honourable member's question is that it will be safe to serve on a nuclear-powered submarine. But, whilst those opposite are trying to have some culture war between nuclear and non-nuclear, at the end of the day this is about economics, because what they are seeking to do is economically insane. To draw an equivalence between eight nuclear reactors which will power eight single machines and nuclear reactors, which those opposite are proposing, which are meant to be powering cities—

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