Annastacia Palaszczuk shouted after rejecting nuclear power during Q+A appearance

A teenage boy has called out former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk after she rejected nuclear power stations as an option for Australia’s future energy mix.

During ABC’s Q+A, Ms Palaszczuk argued against nuclear power during a debate on Peter Dutton’s proposal to build seven nuclear reactors if he wins the next election.

“Nuclear is not the option,” Ms Palaszczuk argued on Monday evening. ‘This is not the answer, because it is simply too expensive and we do not have to wait twenty years before building a nuclear power plant.

‘And where are you going to put it? You can’t put a nuclear reactor on the Queensland coast, we’re going to have cyclones,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

Instead, she advocated accelerating Australia’s “decarbonization process” by expanding the use of solar panels and batteries.

‘I just returned from a trade mission to China and Japan. These factories in China are mass producing batteries like you’ve never seen before.

“We have to work together and put them in their place here.”

But Will Shackel, a young pro-nuclear campaigner, quickly responded on social media, arguing that nuclear power stations are designed to withstand extreme conditions, including cyclones.

“Nuclear power plants are built for much worse,” he wrote on social media.

Annastacia Palaszczuk argued against nuclear power during a debate on Peter Dutton’s proposal to build seven nuclear reactors if he wins the next election

‘What would a cyclone actually do? Nuclear power plants are literally built to withstand the impact of aircraft. We need less fear and more facts.”

He cited data showing that in nearly 20,000 years of combined nuclear power plant operation, there have been only three major accidents.

He claimed it was Three Mile Island, Fukushima and Chernobyl, “with only Chernobyl causing radiation deaths due to management problems and outdated technology.”

The Albanian government’s energy minister, Chris Bowen, has dismissed the idea of ​​nuclear power as a “fantasy wrapped in a delusion accompanied by a utopia.”

Instead, it will focus on renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, battery and hydropower projects in an effort to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Entrepreneur Dick Smith has warned that Labor politicians will eventually be forced to back nuclear power as he believes their green energy plan is doomed to failure.

“They will be convinced because there is simply no alternative,” Smith said.

‘There will be power cuts – you can’t run a country on intermittent solar and wind power; it’s impossible.

“I understand that every state has a ban on nuclear energy, and we also have a federal ban on nuclear energy, so those bans are going to have to be lifted.

Will Shackel, a young pro-nuclear campaigner, quickly responded on social media, arguing that nuclear power stations are designed to withstand extreme conditions, including cyclones

‘We are one of the largest sellers of uranium in the world, but we have legislation that says you can’t even think about it, and that is completely ridiculous.

He also claimed that the costs were not prohibitive.

‘I believe in climate change and I worry about my grandchildren.

‘I believe the only answer for the world to tackle the climate is to start using nuclear energy, to embrace it.

“The government claims it’s too expensive, but I said countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan have embraced nuclear power, and they’re poor countries, so it doesn’t make sense that Bangladesh can afford nuclear power and Australia can’t.

When it came to storing nuclear waste, Mr Smith suggested the Olympic Dam in South Australia, which is also a known storage site for uranium.

“I’ve been to the mine at Olympic Dam – there are huge, huge cavities where we extracted uranium, that’s where we have to store the waste,” he said.