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Is Australia up to the Aukus challenge?

13 March 2023

6:29 PM

13 March 2023

6:29 PM

One hundred miles or so south of Sydney, lies tranquil Jervis Bay. On its shores, largely reclaimed by the bush, are the abandoned foundations of a large nuclear power station. When it was built in the late 1960s, it was intended to be the first of a network supplying nuclear-generated electricity to the eastern Australian grid.

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