Despite liberal export policies, Australian uranium sales are in long-term decline and now represent only 8.9 percent of world uranium usage.
With the Ranger mine shut down and no longer processing ore for uranium exports, there are only two operating uranium mines in Australia: BHP's Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine and the smaller General Atomics' Beverley Four Mile operation - both in South Australia.
Uranium accounts for less than 0.3 percent of Australia's export revenue and less than 0.1 percent of all jobs in Australia.
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One wonders why an industry that delivers so little is given carte blanche by the government to do as it pleases.
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Dr Jim Green is the editor of the Nuclear Monitor newsletter and the national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia.
David Noonan is a freelance environment campaigner with experience on nuclear, uranium, environment and outback rivers conservation issues with the NGO sector.
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