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Australia also might have the worlds best geology for storing nuclear waste.
I actually agree Magnus. Australias uranium industry should include an permanent nuclear waste disposal facility, somwhere deep in the outback. We can't keep digging up ore, processing it to yellowcake, exporting and then wahing our hands of responsibility for what happens to it. We either have a uranium industry or we should shut it all down and keep selling coal and gas as fast as we can shovel it out.
Why people want to shift from depending on one depleting resource to another is beyond me.
There is a huge desert with some of the best solar insolation available on the planet out there, and you guys are talking about digging more holes and shoveling radioactive material offshore and then back on again.
Amazing.
There is so much Light here it's f* amazing. Might as well use it. Welcome to the Solar Age.
You burn it, you store it.
This creates an incentive in the users not to use too much, to store it safely, or even to reprocess it to remove any danger at all.
If nuclear is safe then you can deal with the waste where it's produced, in your country. If nuclear is unsafe then you shouldn't have it at all.