Antinuclear

South Australia happy to flog off uranium – but says nuclear power’s no good

Uranium industry in major turnaround, Adelaide Now by: TIM DORNIN   AAP February 29, 2012  AUSTRALIA has no need for nuclear power and no licence from society to develop it, South Australian Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis says.

The minister says he fully supports uranium mining in SA but not nuclear power. “The truth is, you need a social licence to operate, and there is not a social licence for nuclear power,” Mr Koutsantonis told a uranium
conference.

“The Australian public don’t want it. “I don’t think it’s economic, I don’t think it’s viable, and I don’t think it’s politically saleable.”

February 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, South Australia | South Australia