Keep Uranium in the Ground

The Western Australian government lifted WA’s ban on uranium mining in 2008.  

After uranium is mined, large amounts of water are used to make it into uranium oxide, or yellow cake, ready for export.  Processing generates tailings, which contains 80% of the level of radioactivity of the original ore.[1]

Uranium would be sold overseas for nuclear power; but there is no way to guarantee it won’t be used to make nuclear weapons. Its use will create nuclear waste.

Even if we can stop radioactive nuclear waste being brought back to Australia, that won’t stop it being made and polluting other people and places.

Nuclear power is an expensive and cumbersome technology that will be overtaken by the clean energy industry, and we don’t need to support it. We should be focusing on renewable energy to boost the global economy and resolve our dire climate change issues. This is our moral responsibility.

Read the debate on Giz Watson’s urgency motion on uranium mining

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