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Peter Beattie warms to nuclear energy
Jamie Walker | October 17, 2009

Article from:  The Australian

“………..Mr Beattie’s chief reservation about nuclear power is not on principle or safety grounds — it is the expense of building reactors. Just off the plane from Los Angeles, where he is Queensland’s trade commissioner for North and South America,……..Asked to what extent nuclear would be a part of Australia’s energy future, he said he doubted it would amount to much. “There is an argument for nuclear,” he said. “But I think, frankly, the new energies will leave nuclear behind. I mean, on all the assessments I ever saw when we were in government nuclear was too expensive — we are too small a population in Australia.”

Peter Beattie warms to nuclear energy | The Australian

October 17, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, secrets and lies | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, secrets and lies