The Wire

South Australia’s Nuclear Royal Commission has found that storing nuclear waste could provide one third of the state’s entire revenue, a whopping five billion dollars a year for the first thirty years. The tentative findings released today back nuclear fuel storage and expanded uranium mining, but rule out the use of nuclear power for electricity generation in South Australia. There will be a community consultation period until the Commission hands down its final report in May. How has the Weatherill Government responded to the findings? And how likely is South Australia to become a nuclear waste dump for countries around the world?