Prime Minister: Australia could Store Nuclear Waste for other Countries

摘要

Australia should "look closely" at expanding its role in the global nuclear energy industry, including leasing fuel rods to other countries and then storing the waste afterwards, Malcolm Turnbull has said. But the prime minister said he was "skeptical" about whether Australia would ever build its own nuclear power stations to provide electricity to domestic customers, given the country had plentiful access to coal, gas, wind and solar sources. Turnbull made the observations in a radio interview a day after he named Dr Alan Finkel, a vocal advocate of nuclear power and the outgoing chancellor of Monash University, as Australia's next chief scientist.