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How would a switch to nuclear affect electricity prices for households and industry?

  • Written by: Roger Dargaville, Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University

Peter Dutton has announced that under a Coalition government, seven nuclear power stations would be built around the country over the next 15 years.

Experts have declared nuclear power would be expensive and slow to build.

But what might happen to energy prices if the Coalition were to win government and implement this plan?

How might we estimate...

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