SA Senator says submarine deal will reignite debate over nuclear power - ABC listen
Australia has struck a deal with the United States and United Kingdom to build a fleet of nuclear powered submarines in Adelaide.
Independent SA Senator Rex Patrick is a former submariner, and says he slept 50 metres away from the vessel's nuclear reactor.
He told Ali Clarke and David Bevan why he believes it was worth getting out of a submarine deal with France.
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2008 photo released by the U.S. Navy, The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. The Pentagon's top policy official tells The Associated Press that the United States for the first time has deployed the newest addition to its nuclear arsenal — a submarine-launched weapon that the Trump administration says will make nuclear war less likely.