Radioactive rhetoric

Commercial nuclear power propaganda is hiring politicians again in Australia.

As usual, it functions by being absurdly optimistic, underestimating the time and money required to bring new technology to the point of wide commercial use, drawing attention away from the future harm nuclear waste can do over a long period of time,

and misrepresenting the facts about the renewable alternatives,

The companies (and politicians) involved will use the fallacious "sunk costs" argument

to demand subsidies rather than cancellation. (Why not try — it succeeded in Britain in the past decade.)

Thus they hope to profit handsomely even if the project doesn't see widespread adoption.