In almost all energy debates in Australia you never hear about nuclear energy, even though it has a lower carbon footprint than fossil fuels, such as coal, and even though we are the world’s third-largest uranium producer after Kazakhstan and Canada.

Mick Foley - climate and energy correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald tells us other countries – like the US, France and the UK - have embraced it.

So on this episode of The Briefing we’re asking, why hasn’t it quite taken off here. The good, the bad and the ugly of nuclear energy.

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Nuclear energy: the good, the bad and the ugly