Buried in the news cycle is Dan Tehan’s surprise fawning over US nuclear power.

There’s a bit of ‘once bitten, twice shy’ scenario going on when it comes to the Liberals and nuclear. Still… Just because Peter Dutton ran a dreadful campaign, it doesn’t mean the policy of nuclear energy is unsalvageable.

Dan Tehan was the minister appointed by Sussan Ley to conduct a review of the Coalition’s energy policy after the Nationals briefly split over Net Zero.

Asked if the Coalition were getting any closer to a policy position, Tehan confirmed it would take 9-12 months. Which is a long bloody time to work out how to turn a light switch on.

‘The Labor Party aren’t getting it right. We’ve seen a 30 per cent increase in power prices since they came to office. Emissions reductions are now flatlining.’

Upon returning from his US tour, Tehan told ABC radio:

‘There is huge investment going into nuclear. There are huge developments taking place. Everyone I spoke to is incredibly confident given the use of AI and quantum that they will continue to make rapid developments with nuclear technology.’

He also pointed out that global energy demand will increase 50 per cent before the 2050 climate change goals are reached.

What is the new cost of energy in Australia after we shut down coal, import millions of people, switch to EVs and electric cooking, and pursue AI servers?

I’m joking. The cost of energy is irrelevant in a blackout.

The Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction doesn’t really have a choice other than nuclear if he wants to remain faithful to both sides of his portfolio name.

Fossil fuels provide energy, but do not meet the activist definition of Net Zero adopted by the Liberals. Renewable energy provides neither reliable energy nor reduced emissions. So that’s out. Australia doesn’t have much in the way of geothermal (unlike our eruption-prone neighbour, New Zealand) and no one is keen to dam Australia’s inconsistent and strained waterways for hydro.

What we do have are deserts full of Uranium and an assortment of other nuclear fuel, such as Thorium. More than enough to outlive humanity.

Nuclear is better than renewable, it’s unlimited.

Climate Change and Net Zero charlatans don’t like nuclear because solving the energy crisis means the end of the multi-trillion-dollar apocalypse-mongering grift which is keeping corporations, foreign bureaucrats, and failed politicians alive.

In the nuclear age, there are no cushy, publicly funded jobs on climate advisory boards!

It also dislodges China. Beijing enjoys having a firm grip of Labor’s neck via its domination of the renewable energy supply line. There is a good chance Beijing would violate WTO rules and punish us economically if we tried to build a nuclear grid.

Far from being the ‘energy superpower’ Chris Bowen promotes, Australia is a ‘grand dependent’.

Dangerous? Certainly. It is the deliberate construction of an incomprehensibly fatal weakness in our national defence.

Remember, solutions are typically poison to politicians.

Just as Big Pharma would rather sell a million tissue boxes instead of a cure, political parties trade on promises rather than outcomes.

US President Donald Trump is an outlier. His defence against the ravenous Left is to swarm them with solutions. In that spirit, he called time on the Climate Change Empire and instructed, via Executive Order, the Department of Energy to get on with the task of making power.

This means nuclear is back in a big way. Tehan said:

‘We are seeing all the big tech companies look to nuclear. Look to energy abundance as an absolute key for economies going forward… And yet here in Australia we seem to be constraining our energy at every opportunity.’

The US is building nuclear power plants in an efficient, sensible way. Chris Bowen’s scandalous arguments against nuclear are nowhere to be seen, making Australians suspect they might be confined to his head instead of the real world.

In 2025, the source of bottomless Green Money has been cut off by Trump. European policies designed to force a transition to EVs pushed the price of rare earths to catastrophic levels. The wheels of Net Zero have popped off and now the blades of wind turbines are being dragged down the road by a pair of old draught horses while someone with a chainsaw cuts the forest down ahead.

It was within the ‘oh heck, we really need to fix this’ framework that Tehan went on his US energy tour.

‘There’s basically a nuclear renaissance taking place in the US. There is huge investment going into nuclear. There are huge developments that are taking place.’

America, like Europe and most of Asia, has discovered that nuclear is a requirement for hungry AI servers. No one is going to run AI defence systems with a solar farm and battery pack. Oh don’t worry, Chris Bowen is trying, and Silicon Valley is happy to toss a few his way, but those projects are doomed.

As for Labor’s weird three-eyed fish meme anti-nuclear obsession, Tehan said, ‘It was a dishonest campaign, but they ran it successfully.’

The problem is obvious. You can’t tell people, especially impressionable young voters, that climate change is an immediate existential threat to their survival and then offer ‘moderate’ and sensible half-measures. Liberal members dug their election grave when they converted to the Climate Change cult instead of unmasking its leaders as liars.

Plenty of conservative Liberals and most of the Nationals, who never wanted to go ahead with the climate fabrication propaganda in the first place, are standing around tapping their foot on the ground with their arms folded mouthing ‘I told you so’ at inner-city members.

Before he went to the US, the ABC asked Tehan, ‘What if the Coalition comes to a policy conclusion that makes you potentially unelectable?’

‘We need to make sure that our policy position is in the best interests of the Australian people going forward.’

‘What if it’s not popular?’

Despite pretending that ‘populism is bad’, the ABC is doing a good job of giving the impression it cares more about winning elections than politicians providing a working energy grid.

Gotta be popular! Unless you’re Trump or Farage. Then populism is bad.

‘All the [Labor Party] do is look after their own political interests,’ Tehan slipped in, before the reporter escaped the topic.

Upon returning from the US, the ABC essentially asked the same question about the electorate rejecting nuclear. Tehan doubled down on Labor’s scare campaign, particularly on costings, until he was heckled by the ABC host wanting to know about widespread disquiet about nuclear.

‘That attitude has changed. Some in the older generation who grew up with the Simpsons who still have those sort of outdated mindset but most young Australians are very much open to it-’

He is interrupted mid-answer by the ABC host.

‘But isn’t the election the ultimate poll and it was a bitter defeat?’

It is almost as if the ABC host forgot that Labor bribed university students with wiping their HECs debt using public money.

Tehan corrected her and accused Labor of running a disinformation and misinformation campaign against nuclear. ‘Hats off to them, they were able to get away with that.’

Then he fired a shot across the bow at Bowen. ‘At the last COP, over 30 nations signed up to a pledge triple to the amount of nuclear energy that is used globally.’

Suddenly, the interview was out of time.

Tehan is riding a nuclear wave across the US and through the Net Zero United Nations conferences. Chris Bowen is the one being left behind by the green movement, mostly because Australia is alone in the world demonising nuclear power like it’s 1970.

Time to leverage this, guys.