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Australia rules out nuclear power

To meet its climate goals, Australia shouldn’t rely on either nuclear power or fossil fuels, Hepburn said. Instead the country should aggressively conserve energy and use more renewable power.

Rudd Rules Out Introducing Nuclear Power in Australia  BusinessWeek By Ben Sharples and Stuart BiggsFebruary 17, 2010, (Bloomberg) — Australia, which holds the world’s biggest known uranium resources, has ruled out introducing nuclear power to the country and instead will pursue other low- carbon energy options, including ‘clean’ coal. “Australia has multiple other energy sources and we will not be heading in the direction of civil nuclear power,” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters in Canberra today……….Australia, the world’s biggest coal producer, will explore technologies including CCS, in which the nation leads the world, Rudd said…………

CCS, which seeks to capture harmful emissions from coal- fired power plants and store them underground, may create a “time bomb” for future generations, said John Hepburn, an energy campaigner at Greenpeace Australia.
“There are concerns over whether it will actually stay underground, basically forever,” he said. “You may have to transport the carbon dioxide a long way to a suitable storage site, and there are risks associated with that.”……….
To meet its climate goals, Australia shouldn’t rely on either nuclear power or fossil fuels, Hepburn said. Instead the country should aggressively conserve energy and use more renewable power.

Rudd Rules Out Introducing Nuclear Power in Australia (Update2) – BusinessWeek

February 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, energy efficiency, nuclear, renewable energy, renewables