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

To try and draw an equivalence between eight sealed nuclear reactors, which will be powering eight single machines, and civil nuclear reactors which those opposite are proposing, which are intended to power cities, is like drawing a comparison between a car engine and a coal-fired power station because they both burn hydrocarbons. The two instruments could not be more different. Those opposite are talking about using the nuclear waste facility that will be developed for AUKUS when the first of those reactors is not due to go out of service—will not need to be disposed of—until the early 2050s. Those opposite are trying to say that we should be heading towards zero net emissions by 2050. The reality is that their civil nuclear power stations will be generating tonnes of—

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