Shane Jones ... what a blowhard.

@pezmico I am old enough to remember the (I think) Royal Comission on this in the 70s. I wasn't very political back then but one of my lecturers was involved. Anyway, they came back hands down that it was too expensive because you really can't build a small reactor so we'd have to spend lots building one way too big that we didn't need, and there’s no way to dispose of the waste.

There's still no way to dispose of the waste and, despite claims that it is 'nearly there', there's still no working small reactor. I expect that isn’t quite accurate cos there must be small ones on submarines. However, those have very different cost and operating constraints to a power station.