Antinuclear

South Australian govt wants to enrich uranium in S.A.

In a bullish speech to a uranium conference in Adelaide, Mr Koutsantonis dubbed the reaction to the Fukushima crisis as ”hysteria”, and said nuclear power remained “the path for the future”..

SA call for uranium enrichment at home, Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Ker, Adelaide, March 22, 2011A SPECULATION about the demise of the uranium industry has been fiercely challenged by the South Australian government, which yesterday suggested Australia should expand its relationship with uranium to include domestic enrichment of the resource.
SA Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis’s declaration that Australia “has got to change” its policy of only mining uranium for export comes after Japan’s nuclear crisis dented confidence in the sector and last week wiped more than a billion dollars off the value of Australian uranium miners.

In a bullish speech to a uranium conference in Adelaide, Mr Koutsantonis dubbed the reaction to the Fukushima crisis as ”hysteria”, and said nuclear power remained “the path for the future”……. SA call for uranium enrichment at home

March 22, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, South Australia, uranium | South Australia