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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Petra Stock

Not enough water available for Coalition’s nuclear proposal to run safely, report finds

The Loy Yang power plant
The Loy Yang power plant in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley, the site where one of the Coalition’s proposed seven nuclear plants would be built. Photograph: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake for The Guardian

About 90% of the nuclear generation capacity the Coalition proposes to build would not have access to enough water to run safely, according to a report commissioned by Liberals Against Nuclear.

The report authored by Prof Andrew Campbell, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, assessed nuclear energy’s water needs and the available supply across the seven sites where the Coalition has proposed new reactors.

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