Nuclear energy

Is the Abbott Government abandoning Australia's nuclear safeguards standards for India?
The signing last month of a civil nuclear cooperation agreement between Australia and India has been greeted as an important step towards closer relations between the two…
Movie trailer: Godzilla
A new trailer for the Godzilla reboot has just emerged, and it looks pretty awesome: Judging by the trailer, environmentalists should be ecstatic with this one. In fact, maybe…
Japan transfers weapons grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium to US
As the Nuclear Security Summit meets in The Hague this week, Japanese Prime Minister Abe and US President Obama have jointly announced that Japan will transfer all plutonium and…
China making a mockery of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and no one seems to care
China is pushing forward with plans to finance and construct  new nuclear power plants in Pakistan, in direct violation of its obligations to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)…
Reader riposte: N enrichment in Australia and beyond
Richard Broinowski writes: In his speculative piece on a regional uranium enrichment plant in Australia, John Carlson gets a few things wrong. First, it is inaccurate to suggest…
A regional uranium enrichment centre in Australia?
It may seem anomalous that Australia, with a third of the world's uranium reserves, does not have a uranium enrichment industry to value-add on uranium exports.  This was…