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Australia to consider nuclear power

Sydney (dpa) - Australia will consider using nuclear power in the future, Prime Minister John Howard said Friday, dubbing opponents "foolish and old-fashioned."

Releasing the final report of a review into nuclear energy, uranium mining and processing by a government-appointed task force, Howard said it was clear that nuclear power was part of the solution to Australia's future energy needs and the challenge of climate change.

"The reality is we won't have nuclear power stations tomorrow, but over time if we are to have a sensible response we have to include nuclear power," he said in a report on ABC Radio.

Howard said it was "foolish and backward-looking and old fashioned" of people to say they would always oppose the use of nuclear power.

He rejected fears about the safety of nuclear power plants, saying he would not object to having one next door to his own home.

Australia has about 30 per cent of the world's uranium deposits and Howard called on the state governments to drop current bans on mining and exports.

He said that while nuclear energy was still up to 50 per cent more expensive than other forms of power, the difference was expected to reduce over time.

Is this really about energy, or does Australia have a secret nuclear weapons program? :o

Major sanctions are in order to enforce proliferation treaties. :D

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Originally Posted by some wanker in aussie land who is foking rich

He rejected fears about the safety of nuclear power plants, saying he would not object to having one next door to his own home.

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What a load of bollocks, he aint gonna have one next door to him thats for sure.

I thought most countries had nuclear power already, I mean England had it in the 70's at Windscale.
I suppose us Brits are just proving again that we are streets ahead of many heathen countries:D

hell if they are gonna give aussies the secret they may aswell give it to iraq and iran and any other scummy nation they can think of :(

A Kiwi split the Atom,so you would be all farting for power if it wasn't for us.:sheep2:

I thought a Scottish man split the atom?

Something about being too tight to pay for a fokin whole one?:)

yuk yuk yuk.

it is a big issue in aussie land, and the title of this OP is not far off what many ppl and green type groups are spouting .....

fck just last week i saw an advert on telly here about the greenshouse effect stating that world temperatures WILL rise by 6 degrees by 2014 !!!!!!!!!!!!

i dunno - i've been out of the country a couple of years and they've all gone completely bladdy mad! what gives?

Now you would have thought that a great big fuck off sunny country like Australia might try its hand at something like, well, perhaps solar power or something... :(

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Originally Posted by Helicopter

I thought a Scottish man split the atom?

Something about being too tight to pay for a fokin whole one?:)

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Ernie Rutherford was the man.A good Kiwi bloke by all accounts.He split the atom one day after a big session at his local.....:)

Well, if the bright propeller heads of this world can sucessfully harness and produce energy on a commercial level through Nuclear fusion,then this would seem to be a much better option than what we have now.

I can remember reading somewhere that there is a large very expensive fusion reactor being built in France at the moment.

I would have a reacter in my back yard no problems at all.

However as mentioned above solar energy is more cost effective then nuclear power and I believe they should be concentrating more on that.