Australia Looks At Nuclear Power’s Future

Officialwire reports on nuclear power and its future in Australia.

The market news is quoted as saying:

“We believe that if the world is very serious about reducing carbon emissions, we’re going to have to look more seriously, more extensively at nuclear energy,” du Plessis told reporters following the company’s annual meeting Thursday, Perth Now newspaper reports.

While du Plessis acknowledged that the prospect of nuclear energy is a sensitive issue since the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, still, he said, “with a view to the long-term, our firm view is that for the sake of energy security to begin with, the world is going to have to include … a certain contribution by nuclear energy, I have no doubt about it.”

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