Incidents, accidents, releases and leaks plague the industry in every country where it operates. According to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, uranium mining has been responsible for the largest collective exposure of workers to radiation. One estimate puts the number of workers who have died of lung cancer and silicosis due to mining and milling alone at 20,000. It is widely agreed that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. The threat posed by nuclear weapons is not over - More than 40,000 nuclear warheads still exist.
Nuclear proliferation continues and there is a growing global trade in nuclear smuggling.
The problems of nuclear waste have not been solved - Despite industry assurances, nuclear waste remains a very real and very potent danger. They need to be isolated from people and the wider environment for up to tens or even hundred of thousands of years. In my opinion the moral decision for Australians would be to leave their uranium in the ground. The latest on the anti-nuclear front. 855 on the AM band.