First of all, we Australians LOVE spending money! Not on health, education, preserving our unique biodiversity, certainly not on shelter for our growing homeless.
With our relatively small population, we are still delighted to cough up nearly $400billion to buy a second-hand American nuclear submarine and to buy all the USA and UK nuclear submarine wastes that these dear friends vouchsafe to dump on us.
And, it was interesting to read today, that the UK has spurned paying $millions to Rolls Royce, as the maker for its proposed fleet of small modular nuclear reactors.
No problem to the nuclear lobby. Rolls Royce now plans to flog them off to Australia instead - Opposition leader Peter Dutton has pledged, if elected, to deliver Rolls Royce small modular reactors into the grid by the mid-2030s.
Any old or useless stuff that the nuclear industry has to get rid of - no probs - Australia will buy it!
Your link goes to the home page for the site, which is dynamic. I think you want this one. Certainly a big blow for Dutton's plans.
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1044651/rolls-royce-slips-as-rivals-win-grant-for-hartlepool-mini-nukes-1044651.html
Thanks for the alert on this, Noel. I used it as part of a pitch to Crikey and they liked it.