(Full list available from Jim Green: jim.green@foe.org.au)

Nick Minchin (SA)
"We would be very, very unwise to allow our opponents to lumber us as the party favouring nuclear power".
"It is unviable and if we allow the Greens to suck us in on the greenhouse argument over nuclear we really are mugs."
- June 26, 2005, Liberal Party Federal Council meeting.

Peter Slipper Fisher (Qld)
"I am strongly opposed to a nuclear reactor being located on the Sunshine Coast."

Alexander Somlyay Fairfax (Qld) doesn't want nuclear reactors in his electorate.

Teresa Gambaro Petrie (Qld) 'wouldn't agree to a reactor.'

Gary Hardgrave Moreton (Qld) "My electorate is not suitable."

Warren Entsch Leichhardt (Qld)
"Who in their right mind would even think about putting a nuclear power plant in a place like Port Douglas?

Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull Wentworth (NSW)
"My electorate is an inner city electorate and there isn't a lot of free space, so it's probably a theoretical exercise."

Sue Page - Candidate for Richmond (NSW)
"There's no way the Liberals can get this up without the support of the Nationals. So far as the party's concerned, it's off the table. We've actually got to draw the line in the sand on this one because we are different fro the Liberals in this regard. If the National Party was going to waver on this one and say we are going to ride roughshod over it, I'd have to resign."

Joanna Gash Gilmore (NSW)
'Ms Gash told The Age she would resign if a nuclear reactor was ever constructed at Jervis Bay in NSW. Ms. Gash has a petition on her website opposing a nuclear reactor in her electorate

Alby Schultz Hume (NSW)
"There won't be any nuclear reactor in the electorate of Hume, mate."

Russell Broadbent McMillan (Vic)
Nuclear power would happen "over my dead body".

Mark Baker Braddon (Tas)
"I can't see the need for a nuclear power plant in Tasmania in my lifetime."'

David Tollner Solomon (NT)
"It is hugely unlikely that a nuclear reactor will be built in the Northern Territory in the foreseeable future."

Lucas Heights to stay closed 'til 2008

The operator of Australia's nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, in south-west Sydney, says it will be shut down until next year, for much longer than first thought.

In July, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) said it could take up to eight weeks to fix a leak and problems with the uranium fuel plates that power the reactor.

It said the worst-case scenario was a six-month closure. More: ABC news, 25/10/07.

Fact:
This new nuclear reactor is not required for cutting edge nuclear medicine and research but does remain a recognised terrorism and safety risk. See: 'A New Clear Direction' by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW).

"This reactor has gone from fizz to flop in what must be record time. It has never produced medical isotopes, and was never needed. No patient has suffered as a result; most doctors using medical isotopes are not even aware the reactor is closed," said MAPW spokesperson Associate Professor Tilman Ruff.

"This reactor is a dangerous white elephant. When the reactor operating license was granted, the regulator acknowledged in his report our position that the reactor was not needed to supply medical isotopes."


We urge Australian voters to see our scorecard for a nuclear-free future and vote accordingly this election: www.VoteNuclearFree.net

"Expansion of nuclear fuel cycle activities need not be part of a response to climate change.
"The draft report appears to the Review Panel to underestimate the challenge that will confront Australia if it should choose to expand the scope of its nuclear activities.
"In our view it is unrealistic to believe that a reactor could be operating in as little as ten years. Similarly, the view that only 20 people a year would need to undergo relevant training and education is an underestimate."
- the Australian Government's official peer review of the Ziggy Switkowski draft report, chaired by (pro-nuclear) Australian Chief Scientist Dr Jim Peacock, (9/12/2000).


"India has an excellent non-proliferation record other than their own nuclear weapons' programme." - Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer (ABC 7.30 Report, Aug 2007).


"The last people you would need to be choosing what to do with nuclear waste are politicians." - Former Australian Environment Minister Ian Campbell (1/10/04).


Nuclear reactors are proven terrorist risks, yet..
"The government will do everything it can to minimise terrorism coming to our shores." - Prime Minister John Howard, (9/8/03 - incidentally, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki).


"John Carlson, Director of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, has admitted that Australians will not inspect Chinese nuclear facilities to ensure compliance with controls safeguarding non proliferation. He also confirmed that international inspectors would not visit enrichment or conversion facilities in China to ensure Australian uranium did not end up in nuclear weapons." - The Age, (5/9/06).


"If you can enrich uranium up to 5 per cent or so needed for nuclear power reactors then by putting it through the system time and again, you can get it up to the 93 per cent needed for nuclear weapons and therefore it's a dual purpose technology, usable for both purposes." - Dr Frank Barnaby, former British Atomic Weapons Establishment physicist, ABC 7.30 Report.


"Whether or not Aussie uranium goes directly into Chinese warheads .. or whether it is used in power stations in lieu of uranium that goes into Chinese warheads .. makes little difference. Canberra is about to do a deal with a regime with a record of flouting international conventions." - The Taipei Times Editorial, (21/1/06).


While (China) had enough uranium resources to support its nuclear weapons program, Madame Fu said China would need to import uranium to meet it's power demands." - An admission from China's Australian Ambassador Madame Fu Ying that Australia supplying uranium to China would support their nuclear weapons program by freeing up their own uranium reserves for this purpose. ('The Australian', 2/12/05, "China warning on uranium").


"Given India's uranium ore crunch and the need to build up our minimum credible nuclear deterrent arsenal as fast as possible, it is to India's advantage to categorize as many power reactors as possible as civilian ones to be refueled by imported uranium and conserve our native uranium fuel for weapons grade plutonium production." - K. Subrahmanyam, former head of the India's National Security Advisory Board.


"Any country has the right to master these (nuclear) operations for civilian uses. But in doing so, it also masters the most difficult steps in making a nuclear bomb." - Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.


"It is clear that no international safeguards system can physically prevent diversion or the setting up of an undeclared or clandestine nuclear (weapons) program." - IAEA, 1993.