Lucy McNally reports that Mr Barilaro, the leader of the NSW Nationals, will address his party annual conference in Broken Hill today, where he will make the case for a nuclear debate. He is challenging his members to look for exciting solutions and think about the generations to come. He said that we live in a resource-rich nation, where energy should be our competitive advantage, but we have had the settings wrong, we have been led by political correctness and unfortunately by fear and outright lies about nuclear, I am sorry to say, and these mistruths had stifled debate.
Can you have nuclear power in a day where technology has changed the way those power plants are built, and how they are decommissioned and what we do with the waste material? The answer is Yes. The Nationals leader said a debate about nuclear was crucial, given energy was such a hot-button topic in Australia.
Look at France, they currently rely heavily on nuclear energy which they import from places next door like the Czech Republic and other European nations, Mr Barilaro said.
Yet they have made a commitment to build a plant in France. Places like the U.S. and Korea, and 25 other countries have all decided to look at building nuclear plants of various sizes and production capabilities. He said there were around 60 nuclear plants already being built around the world.
The two things that motivate us in NSW are, number one, energy security, and number two, keeping an eye on household bills, one member said.
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