JTP Elec: Nuclear Energy in Australia
Where: Engineers House, Chapman Hall, 11 Bagot Street, North Adelaide
When: 6.15pm Wednesday 10th October 2007
Refreshments from 5:30pm
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This event is sponsored by the Electric Energy Society of Australia.
Speaker: Clarence Hardy, Secretary Australian Nuclear Association
Australia has 36% of the world’s low cost uranium and exports 23% of the world’s uranium production from three mines but has no nuclear power station.
Dr Hardy will discuss the history and development of the uranium industry in Australia and refer briefly to the attempt by government in 1970 to build a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay, NSW, and the attempt by industry in 1983 to upgrade Australia’s uranium for export to the world’s nuclear power industry. Both attempts failed.
The five major issues about uranium and nuclear energy which concern many persons in Australia are: safety of nuclear power stations, economics of nuclear power, radioactive waste management, proliferation of nuclear weapons and terrorism, and whether there is enough uranium to sustain an expanded nuclear industry worldwide.
Two major reviews of these issues were published in December 2006: The Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review (UMPNER) set up by the PM in June 2006 and a Standing Committee of the House of Representatives which took evidence throughout 2006. Dr Hardy will give an overview of these issues with reference to the conclusions of these reports, his own experiences in the nuclear field over 40 years and his presentations to a wide variety of audiences in Australia in recent years. Finally, he will discuss his most recent work to examine the feasibility of constructing a $2 B enrichment plant to upgrade uranium in Australia.
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