Australian government to push nuclear power
APR 30, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021072
The Australian : Prime Minister John Howard has decided to take immediate steps to make possible an expanded nuclear industry in Australia, which could ultimately include nuclear power stations, uranium enrichment and nuclear waste treatment. He told Australians over the weekend they must face the reality that nuclear power stations “will come”, probably in 10 years.Howard is putting the nuclear power option at the heart of his election campaign on the economy and climate change, defying a Labor scare campaign and claims he was committing political suicide. “It’s not political suicide to tell the truth,” Mr Howard told the Nine Network’s Sunday program . “There are only two ways that you can run power stations ... in this country. You can do it on fossil fuel or you can do it with nuclear power.
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