"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.