Beyond industrial activity, South Australia has been at the forefront of Australia’s nuclear policy conversation, which bodes well for its leadership in the submarine domain.

AI and data centres are driving unprecedented energy demand. Explore how nuclear energy is emerging as critical infrastructure — and what it means for Australia.

Australia’s ability to participate in the global nuclear industry is increasingly shaped not by domestic reactor deployment, but by its position within international industrial and workforce systems. As advanced nuclear technologies expand across energy, defence, medicine and digital infrastructure, countries are competing to build the skills, supply chains and governance frameworks that support them.

For Australia, the question is no longer whether nuclear activity occurs elsewhere — it already does. The question is whether Australian industry and workers are positioned to contribute to, and benefit from, those global developments. Answering that requires a clear-eyed assessment of Australia’s capability assets, workforce readiness and structural gaps, regardless of domestic nuclear policy settings.

This is where coordination matters, across industry, research, training and international engagement, to ensure Australia remains competitive in nuclear-aligned sectors now forming worldwide.

ANWIN exists to organise Australia’s industrial and workforce capability for participation in nuclear-aligned global markets.

ANWIN is Australia’s first industry-led, not-for-profit platform, established to translate national industrial and workforce capability into participation across nuclear-aligned global industries.

ANWIN does this by providing structure where none previously existed — aligning skills, supply chains and partnerships across nuclear-aligned sectors, including energy, defence, critical infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, AI and high-compute systems, agriculture, and medicine.

Within this evolving landscape, Australia’s role is best understood through the lens of supply-chain participation and industrial capability, rather than domestic energy posture.

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