MPs on nuclear push
Two Victorian crossbench MPs are pushing to lift bans on nuclear power.
The state’s Liberal Democrats are planning to table a motion to establish a parliamentary inquiry expand the nuclear industry including uranium mining, exploration, exports, power generation, waste management, industrial and medical applications.
“If we have these issues with climate change we need to look at all the options available to us and at the moment we've got laws prohibiting certain options and we think that those options should be on the table,” Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick told reporters.
Mr Limbrick and his colleague Tim Quilty says Australia should benefit as much from uranium as the countries it exports it to.
“Australia already exports enough uranium to mitigate all of the carbon dioxide we create to make electricity - but we can do much more. We are the only country in the OECD that does not produce nuclear energy,” Mr Limbrick said.