Japan’s nuclear emergency a warning to Australia and the world
“Australia has a direct link to this tragedy as Tepco, the company that operates the Fukushima reactors, buys and burns Australian uranium.”
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto sell Australian uranium to Japan.
The nuclear emergency that is compounding the human tragedy of Japan’s earthquake sends a clear warning to Australia to steer clear of the risks of nuclear energy, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today. “The terrible human cost of the earthquake in Japan is being made even worse by radiation escaping from damaged nuclear reactors,” said ACF’s David Noonan.
“Australia has a direct link to this tragedy as Tepco, the company that operates the Fukushima reactors, buys and burns Australian uranium.”
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto sell Australian uranium to Japan.
“Nuclear is a high cost, high risk electricity option that has no place in a sustainable energy future,” Mr Noonan said.
“When things go well we are left with the unresolved management of high level long lived radioactive waste; when they go badly people are left with a disaster.
“Australian companies should not be allowed to push this contested and contaminating industry in developing nations when this sort of situation can occur in a country as rich and technically advanced as Japan.
“Australia must stop fuelling trouble overseas through our uranium sales and dancing with danger closer to home through ill-considered plans for domestic nuclear energy reactors.
“No other industrial activity poses the risks and threats the nuclear trade does: long lived waste, links to nuclear weapons production and proliferation and the potential for catastrophic accidents and uncontrolled radiation exposure.
“Nuclear reactors have no place in a clean energy future.”
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