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In what would be a blow to the Federal Opposition, which has been trying to push the virtues of nuclear power, the first planned small nuclear reactor plant plant in the US has been cancelled.

The constant talk by the federal Opposition about the need to embrace nuclear power as an option for satisfying the country's energy needs appears to be just another diversionary tactic, which is unlikely to be followed up were the Coalition to gain power sometime in the future.

Whether by accident or design, federal Opposition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O'Brien chose to write an op-ed about introducing nuclear power in Australia on a day [Wednesday] when the world remembers the destruction of Nagasaki, the second Japanese city to be smashed to smithereens by an American nuclear device in three days, the first having been Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Ted O’Brien has called on the Federal Government to urgently review the energy security implications of its 82% renewables target.

The Federal Government's decision to sign on to a pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30% on 2020 levels by 2030 has come in for criticism by the Opposition.

Residents in and around Dulong, Queensland, are now duly celebrating long awaited "new and improved mobile coverage", and it's all "thanks to the Coalition Government’s $220 million Mobile Black Spot Program".