`Too late' for nuclear

Sunday Mail Adelaide
Sunday 17/6/2007 Page: 4

BUILDING a nuclear plant in Australia would be a questionable investment of "billions and billions of dollars", an Adelaide scientist says. University of Adelaide's Chair of Natural Resources Science, Professor Wayne Meyer, said by the time a nuclear power plant was built it might already be in danger of being obsolete.

There could be just tens of years of uranium fuel left because many countries were boosting their nuclear industries. "The rate of potential consumption is very high," he said. Professor Meyer said Australia would be better off concentrating on sustainable energy forms such as wind energy.