The
Australian: Prime Minister John Howard has decided to take
immediate steps to make possible an expanded nuclear industry
in Australia, which could ultimately include nuclear power
stations, uranium enrichment and nuclear waste treatment. He
told Australians over the weekend they must face the reality
that nuclear power stations "will come", probably in 10
years.Howard is putting the nuclear power option at the heart
of his election campaign on the economy and climate change,
defying a Labor scare campaign and claims he was committing
political suicide. "It's not political suicide to tell the
truth," Mr Howard
told
the Nine Network's Sunday program. "There are only two ways
that you can run power stations ... in this country. You can do
it on fossil fuel or you can do it with nuclear power.
