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Taxpayers would be forced to foot the bill for a portion of the Coalition’s mooted nuclear energy push, the opposition has confirmed, as it bats away questions over the cost, timeframe and commercial viability of local nuclear generation.

..to develop a small modular nuclear reactor (SMNR) collapsed late last year, squibbing $US600 million ($AU930 million) of taxpayers’ funds after cost overruns extinguished the project’s commercial viability.

The failure of the project, which was frequently cited by the Coalition, has dashed its plan to hinge its nuclear energy policy on the still-rudimentary technology.

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What is the big deal? We use nuclear energy every day. It's called sunlight. We're just cutting out the middleman.
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