ENERGY SA Labor prepares to consider nuclear power
In a groundbreaking step, South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill has announced that his state government will establish a royal commission into the nuclear fuel cycle. SA Premier Jay Weatherill Since the 1970s, there has been a bipartisan policy across Australia against involvement in the nuclear industry, which generates much of the electric power used in many other countries of the world. Australia’s attitude towards nuclear power owes much to extreme environmentalists’ fear campaigns that nuclear energy would end up in nuclear weapons or in ecological disasters such as the 1986 Chernobyl reactor meltdown. The nuclear industry has an extraordinarily…