Opposition leader Peter Dutton says nuclear energy is the cheapest, most consistent and cleanest energy around. 

But if that’s the case, then what to make of the dirty history of 'Nukey Poo', a little-known nuclear reactor that was built in our region in the 1960s? 

Today, climate and energy correspondent Mike Foley fact checks the Opposition’s claims about nuclear energy, and delves into the latest poll about what voters want and how this might impact the Coalition's desire to usher in nuclear energy,

And later, national environment and climate editor Nick O’Malley on what happened at ‘Nukey Poo’, and the cancer cases linked to it.

Credits:

• The Federal File and U.S Navy/Atomic Energy Commission on the installation of 'Nukey Poo'.
• PeriScope Film and the Antartic nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station.

Further reading:

• Mike Foley's 'Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up?'
• Nick O'Malley and 'The dirty history of Nukey Poo, the reactor that soiled the Antartic.'

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