Goodness me! All this gnashing of teeth over uranium sales. Tut-tut.

Why don't you people come out of the Twentieth Century into our modern times? Nuclear hysteria is very old-hat. It went out of fashion along with the ALP, Democrats and Greens decades ago. This Christine Milne doesn't seem to have realised it yet.

Ah yes, I see. She is with the Greens. Now that explains it.

And Shonga, excellent idea about getting ourselves a government who is sympathetic to humans, and humanity, rather than profit, but from where are we going to get one of those? No such thing exists or ever has existed in the entire history of the planet.

The Nuclear Age has arrived, the 'bang' will be next week.When humans with their usual anything you can do I can do better start comparing their reactors, bombs and weapons the race will be on.
And the first fool to push that button will most likely be the surviver.
There will be no winners.

Not only is there the threat of a large scale nuclear disaster whether warfare or accident -what about the chinese workers who will be exposed to radioactivity? These people work for slave wages now in atrocious conditions. It is wrong to sell to nations that have no safeguards for their workers. Of course, for the Liberals workers are just a resource. China today Australia tommorrow.

Christine Milne repeats the tired old mantra of the Greens. Uncritically copied from one anti-nuclear rant to another.. “But nuclear power is not the answer. It is too slow, too expensive and too dangerous, and generates waste with no safe disposal.”

What does it mean “too slow?”
“Too expensive?” is that not a matter for investors and design engineers? Clearly the empirical evidence is against her. Else why is it that world wide, that new reactors are either being planned or are under construction?
“Too dangerous?” I wonder what Christine has to say about the published safety record of the nuclear industry (see Uranium Information Centre, Briefing Paper 14)?
“Generates waste with no safe disposal:” Really, for some 60 or so years the nuclear power industry has handled and transported its waste with out major incidence. Of course it is well appreciated that any suggestion to build a permanent, or safe depository for nuclear material, will always generate the strongest irrational opposition from the Greens.

“Renewable energy wins on all counts: speed, cost, safety and effectiveness.” If Christine believes that piddle power will save the world, she will believe anything.

Don’t be too hard on them Maximus, it is difficult sometimes.

The simple answer is: If Australia did not sell uranium, and then China will buy it somewhere else. The weapons grade issue, well they have thousands of nuclear weapons anyhow, you can only destroy the planet once, and with all the Nuclear weapons and its proliferation, with but perhaps two exceptions, a deterrent from mutual destruction and that is guaranteed no matter what anyone says.
I am amazed at the ignorance of Nuclear energy and its advantages, I can remember producing an essay in grade 8 high school on Uranium Isotopes and Nuclear energy into the future, such is an inquisitive mind, but it seems to have become an Anathema to even get the basic science out in the New World of Controlled indoctrination now days.
Most should study Nuclear Physics even in its basic form, and understand its principles before ranting Leftist programmed automaton, total ignorance by coercion and design. Irony is: No that’s enough.

Well if we don't sell it to China,someone else will.Remember "Pig Iron Bob Menzies"? So why all the hand wringing and pontificating about the morality of uranium sales?

Aparently Aust is on the verge of developing the technology for recycling nuclear waste,so when the technology improves,so will the safety.

We have no choice,either we murder two thirds of the world's population and go back to the horse and cart days,or use our minds and technology to progress to hopefully a higher plain of consciousness.