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Opposing nuclear power in SA

Motion
Penny Wright 12 Feb 2015

1)      opposes the establishment of nuclear power plants in Australia, based on the best available expert advice;

2)      recognises that the production of uranium and its use in the nuclear fuel cycle presents unique and unprecedented hazards and risks, including:

i.                     threats to human health and the local environment in the mining and milling of uranium;

ii.                   the generation of products that are usable as the raw materials for nuclear weapons manufacture; and

iii.                  the generation of highly toxic radioactive waste by-products; and

3)      rejects any efforts to move toward establishing nuclear power plants in South Australia.

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