Former PM questions whether Australia can maintain US subs

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The erstwhile Australian premier curate who signed the now-cancelled French submarine woody has questioned whether Australia could safely support a fleet powered by U.S. atomic technology. Malcolm Turnbull made the woody successful 2016 with the French to physique 12 accepted submarines. His successor canceled the woody this period successful favour of a fleet of astatine slightest 8 subs powered by U.S. atomic technology. Turnbull told the National Press Club that Australia’s Defense Department had advised him an Australian nuclear-powered fleet was not an enactment without section atomic facilities. Atomic vigor is simply a fraught contented successful Australia, which bans atomic powerfulness procreation and refuses to export uranium to countries that would enactment it to subject uses.