Australians will ‘accept, embrace’ need for nuclear

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Wed, Jul 22, 2009
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Post by Melissa Pistilli, Uranium Reporter

Bloomberg.com reports Australians will need to “embrace” nuclear power due to climate change.

“As more and more Australians get involved in the whole climate change debate, as they learn about what’s happening around the world where the uptake of nuclear power is increasing quite strongly, they’ll accept the attraction of nuclear power and over time embrace it,” Switkowski said.

In a submission on energy policy, Rio said overly optimistic assumptions on wind and geothermal power and “clean coal” technologies have created false optimism, the Australian reported. Rio controls Energy Resources Australia Ltd., producer of about 10 percent of the world’s mined uranium.

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