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Uranium
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The energy paper’s peculiar logic about nuclear power
The draft energy white paper proposes that nuclear power could be a backstop power supply decades hence. But it takes some unusual twists of logic to do it.
A bad conference for Gillard, and maybe worse for her party
The ALP national conference did nothing to dispel perceptions about Julia Gillard’s judgment - or the party’s inability to renew itself.
Delegates back Gillard on uranium exports to India
ALP delegates back Julia Gillard on uranium exports to India despite an emotive round of speeches against the proposition. Andrew Crook reports from the national conference floor at The Stump.
Let the ALP conference begin
Crikey media wrap: The ALP party has rolled into town for the first day of the Labor national conference in Sydney. With gay marriage, uranium and asylum seeker policy all up for grabs, expect it to be a raucous weekend.
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Would uranium sales to India breach a key Labor treaty?
Uranium sales to India may be in breach of a key international treaty established by the Hawke government in 1985, according to one of Australia’s most eminent international lawyers.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Journalists fail us on nuclear proliferation
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Gillard’s distorted uranium sales pitch
Labor’s attempt to sell its about-turn on uranium to India presents a distorted triumvirate of benefits for Australians, including arguments about modernising policy and fulfilling moral duty, writes NAJ Taylor.
If Australia sells uranium to India, will Pakistan be next?
Like India, Pakistan is a nuclear armed state that refuses to sign the NPT. There is no doubt the Islamabad will be keeping a close eye Canberra and on Darling Harbour come Labor’s National Conference in December, says Dave Sweeney.
Uranium sales, arms control fails
NAJ Taylor discusses uranium exports in the context of nonproliferation and disarmament, after Labor yesterday announced its proposal to sell uranium to India.
Australia should have an Indian dalliance for uranium, says Lowy
The Lowy Institute’s Andrew Carr has dubiously suggested that Australia reconfigure its uranium export control policy to permit sales to India for civilian energy purposes, writes NAJ Taylor.
BHP and the new maths of nuclear reactors
BHP is charging ahead with its Olympic Dam project despite the worldwide pause on nuclear power caused by Fukushima.
The ideology dividing both parties
Ideology and personalities are usually the stumbling blocks to political unity. But they work in quite different ways in the Liberal and Labor parties.
Bishop: Let’s send India a peace offering — uranium
Deputy Opposition leader Julie Bishop has a novel idea for how Australia can repair its relationship with India over that whole “beating up Indian students” thing: agree to start selling the nuclear state uranium again.
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Iran steps up uranium production
Satellite images obtained by Bloomberg show Iran has increased its production of uranium, according to nuclear analysts. The country now has enough to build two atomic bombs a year. It this further evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program?
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Obama’s secret deal with Iran
Iranian nuclear experts and world powers met today to negotiate the future of the country’s uranium stockpiles. But Barack Obama has been personally wheeling and dealing secretly with Iran for four months now, TIME reveals.
Is Iran hiding more secret nuclear sites?
In a promising step forward, Iran has pledged to let the UN in to inspect its newly disclosed nuclear facility. But if that one was kept secret for years, how many others are there we don’t know about?
How Australia is complicit in China’s uranium and human rights abuses
Today is the 60th anniversary of China’s one-party communist state — a fitting time to consider Australia’s role in supplying China with uranium and the associated impacts of the nuclear industry, writes James Norman.
How Obama was forced to play his hand
News of Iran’s secret nuclear fuel processing plant may come as a surprise to most of the world, but the US has known for years, Politico reveals. So why did they finally bring it u now?
Garrett’s about-face on uranium makes sense
Peter Garrett, the Federal Environment Minister, has been heavily criticised for approving a uranium mine in SA and apparently flip-flopping. But much has changed since 1984, writes Sam Wylie.
Green groups ‘horrified’ by Garrett
Bob Brown and other Greens MPs have savaged Peter Garrett’s approval of a new uranium mine, condemning the “toxic legacy” he will leave behind.
It’s OK, it’s not our uranium in those bombs…
Nobody seems to have noticed Australia’s massive foreign policy shift on nuclear non-proliferation, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
