Australia must remain a nuclear-free country.
Nuclear energy and arms are not compatible with a clean future.
The Coalition's nuclear energy plan is light on detail but heavy with danger. It's a costly distraction from effective climate action that risks delaying – and even derailing – the sensible, considered and speedy transition to renewables that is already well underway and essential to protect the environment and safeguard our future.
To our representatives, we call on you to make Australia nuclear-free:
- End uranium mining and exports, and clean up all old uranium mines;
- Say no to nuclear power – it is high-risk, high-cost and a dangerous distraction from real climate solutions, like clean energy from the sun and wind;
- Take a strong stand against nuclear weapons – this includes signing and ratifying the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty;
- Manage radioactive waste transparently and responsibly.
The exaggerated claims being made by the latest round of nuclear promoters do not alter the evidence which clearly shows nuclear is the worst option for Australia. Promoting nuclear today will keep coal and gas burning for decades to come!
There are many reasons nuclear energy is not a viable alternative for Australia’s energy future:
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It takes too long – on average, it takes about nine years to build a nuclear power station and another 10 years for planning and licensing. Effectively that means two decades between first idea and first power. These are the critical decades to immediately reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
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It’s dirty and dangerous – Nuclear power stations pose significant community, environment and health risks. Apart from the radioactive waste they generate, nuclear power stations run on uranium which, like coal and gas, is not a renewable resource.
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It’s far more expensive than renewable options – Modelling shows developing nuclear infrastructure is 5-10 times more expensive than solar and wind. And even if the technology was in place, it would also cost more to produce.
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It needs a lot of water – Nuclear reactors use tonnes of water per second to cool the reactors to produce electricity. This is unlike wind and solar which require little or no ongoing water use.
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We have no proven options for managing long-term radioactive waste – All reactors create waste, and this is a growing and unresolved global management issue. For decades successive governments have tried to impose low and intermediate level waste dumps and stores, predominantly on First Nations lands, across multiple sites in Australia.
We must leave the uranium in the ground to keep our communities and the nature we rely on safe.
Let's get it right and make Australia nuclear-free.
Header image: Sea lions gather on the beach on the Eyre Peninsula. At the top of the Peninsula is Kimba, where the government is proposing to put a national radioactive waste site despite unanimous opposition from Barngarla Traditional Owners
Latest Supporters
The Latrobe Valley is not a dumping ground for the government and country rubbish like it always is……
I want Australia to be nuclear free because it is not the answer.. where would the nuclear waste go; concern over safety of running a nuclear power station; go for clean energy, sun ☀️, wind or water (if we can, but I’m always concerned about daming areas too). So solar and wind energy, I think is the way to go. 👍😃
Just think Chernobyl, Fukashima and Three mile island plus the other 56 incidents in the USA alone
Nuclear power is a high-risk, high-cost and a not thought through proposition for the Latrobe Valley. It is dangerous distraction from real sustainable climate solutions, like clean energy from the sun and wind. We need to work on developing advances in these technologies with appropriate battery storage.
It’s not worth the risks involved, how about we go to harvesting free clean energy like civilisations before
We already have an abundance of renewable resources at our fingertips, that won’t take decades to build, not pose a national security and health threat
I want Australia to be nuclear free because it is too dangerous, too expensive and pollutes our planet with nuclear waste – radiation that lasts for hundreds of years
It’s Obscenely expensive, which would saddle the population with repayment, at the expense of more vital Social infrastructure for decades. It’s far to slow to get it up & running, look at other Countries, it took them over a decade to go from planning to Operational. We would be in the same dilemma as we are with our Natural Gas, being stung with the cost of the building project, but Not Owning it or the Uranium resource, so we’re subsidising a Corporation, or Billionaire, like: Gina Rhinehart, and be subject to the whims of ‘Price Gouging’ for the ‘Privilege’ of using it, as the energy is exported O/S. We would have to store the Nuclear waste in a secure (from terrorists), & hermetically sealed location for several hundred thousand years.
We Have Ample Renewable Energy resources, to be shared across the Continent, in a modular fashion, in each Community, reducing a total outage across the grid. No Individual/Corporation could hold us to ‘ransom’, by ‘jacking up’ the tariffs to exhorbitantly enhance their profits.
I Say NO to Nuclear Power, the Public would suffer the cost, & the Govts favourite Sponsor would Profit, at our expense.
I live in latrobe Valley and do not want the risk of something going wrong. I would like Mr Duton to build this near whete he lived. Just because we are small rural communities does not mean we are expendable
Nuclear is not worth the risk when we have so many other options available to us
We have all the resources to move forward, wind and solar that nature has given us
Just get on with it!! Nuclear is just a distraction
Nuclear power is not safe.
Australia is doing just fine without nuclear anything !! WE DON’T NEED OR WANT IT HERE IN AUSTRALIA !!!
Australia just doesn’t need another problem in return for a negative return.