Renewable energy is outstripping nuclear power, as the number of nuclear reactors operating around the world continues to slide, a new report says.
The study, Nuclear power’s global stagnation and decline’, is published by the EnergyScience Coalition, an independent non-governmental organisation. It is authored by academics from the University of Melbourne and the Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG).
Its findings show that, despite claims to the contrary, the global nuclear power industry is “stagnating rather than growing”.
The aim of the study is to show that Australia’s push towards nuclear power is not worth the investment, and it cannot be deployed in time to support Australia’s energy transition targets.
Co-author Jim Green, a national nuclear campaigner and member of the NCG, told Associated Press (AP): “This report provides a factual rebuttal to the pro-nuclear disinformation campaign currently under way in Australia.
“There has been zero growth in nuclear power over the past 20 years...
