Uranium, as a most significant material in producing nuclear power, has becoming a world renowned energy resource. An article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2006) points out that, Australia is one of the largest uranium distribution countries in this world and is also one of the countries that can exploit the uranium. So the uranium mining has made a huge influence for Australian and its people. Some people argument that uranium mining can bring enormous economic resources for Australia, for that reason, the government should encourage the exploitation of uranium. However, I firmly believe that the limitations on mining of uranium are very essential. Firstly, uranium mining would cause pollution for the drinking water. Secondly, the miner’s health is harmful impacted while they working to mining the uranium ore. Lastly, if people mine uranium without control, the uranium tends to decrease to a smaller amount and exhausted in the last.
Those people who against to restrict the uranium mining claim that Australia economy can obtain many economic benefits from international u...
The need to act on global warming, the failure of federal leadership on this issue and the distorted economics of the energy market mean Australia should go nuclear: more uranium mining, uranium enrichment, domestic nuclear power and international radioactive waste storage.
The driving forces of globalisation have a direct impact on the success of the iron ore mining industry in Australia in terms of the national and global economies. BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Group, both as Transnational Corporations (TNCs), have further increased industry sales and exports, and reduced the costs of production by utilising economies of scale. Mine expansion and the opening of new mines in the iron-rich areas of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria have resulted in great benefits for the Australian economy and rapid national growth in the global economy.
mining of uranium which is a resource used to creating nuclear weapons also causes nuclear
In today’s day and age many people around the world have become dependent on what seems like useless or needless things such as the internet and television. This is one of the negative effects of science and the technology that comes with it. Some of these technologies seem harmless, like cellphones and computers, but it seems as the years progress people want more and more power, literally and figuratively. The element uranium is a perfect example; this element has the power to do well in generating power for millions of people, and the power to do wrong in nuclear warfare.
...nce World War II to the present day, the technology of nuclear power has increased significantly in terms of energy output and safety. The energy efficiency of nuclear power is far superior to its counterpart fossil fuel and renewable energy. Compared to fossil fuels, tiny amounts of fuel used by nuclear reactors is equivalent to a large sum of coal. This is a no brainer. Why mine a ton of coal when a little uranium can be used to gain the same amount of energy? Not only is it efficient, it’s safe to use. Used fuel is packed away in storage safely, so there isn’t any chance of radiation leaking out. In the present day, nuclear power incidents haven’t been occurring lately. Advancements in technology and equipment used have made nuclear energy a very reliable and safe source of energy. With today’s energy needs, nuclear power has the ability to keep up in the race.
Nuclear energy is sometimes considered a renewable energy source. Enriched uranium is a very abundant resource. It is found in most rocks. Despite its abundance there is a finite supply of u...
Over the past five years the Australian economy has gone through many changes experiencing both the peaks and troughs associated with business cycle.
Bauxite is a clayey rock that's the main ore of aluminum. It consists of hydrous aluminum oxide with proportions of iron oxides. Bauxite is mostly used for aluminum production. It’s a rock composed largely of aluminum-bearing minerals. It forms once dirt soils are severely leached of silicon oxide and alternative soluble materials during a wet tropical or subtropic climate. Primarily, all the aluminum that has ever been created has been mined from Bauxite.
Nuclear waste is radioactive material that is produced as a common by-product of the operation of nuclear power generation and any additional applications of nuclear technology. Nuclear (Radioactive) waste is hazardous to the environment as well as living organisms and is strictly regulated by certain government agencies to protect the world from the risks of this waste. However, nuclear technology can also be a good thing as it is used in smoke alarms and radiotherapy to cure cancer (Brainiac75, 2012). Radioactive waste decays naturally over specific periods depending on the types of radioactive material that the waste is composed of. Radioactive waste has materials that are unstable due to a differing number of neutrons. The neutron is ejected out the nucleus and can produce radiation in the form of an electron formed by a neutron; there are also other types of radiation such as alpha (fast helium atoms) or gamma rays (Black Cat Systems, n.d). Therefore, nuclear waste
Australia has had one of the most outstanding economies of the world in recent years - competitive, open and vibrant. The nation’s high economic performance stems from effective economic management and ongoing structural reform. Australia has a competitive and dynamic private sector and a skilled, flexible workforce. It also has a comprehensive economic policy framework in place. The economy is globally competitive and remains an attractive destination for investment. Australia has a sound, stable and modern institutional structure that provides certainty to businesses. For long time, Australia is a stable democratic country with strong growth, low inflation and low interest rate.(Ning)
...tself. Importantly, the benefits will continue well into the new millennium as Australia gets more international exposure for its exports and gains from the transfer of technology and knowledge from the world’s best. Opportunity beckons for the athletes, for exporters, for artists, for scientists and for the whole Australian community.
Since the early 1980s, successive Australian governments have deregulated financial and labor markets and reduced trade barriers. Malcolm Turnbull, a former communications minister, replaced Tony Abbott as head of the ruling Liberal–National coalition and as prime minister in a leadership ballot in September 2015. Australia is one of the Asia–Pacific’s wealthiest nations and has enjoyed more than two decades of economic expansion. It emerged from the 2009 global recession relatively unscathed, but stimulus spending by the previous Labor government generated a fiscal deficit. Australia is internationally competitive in services, technologies, and high-value-added manufactured goods. Mining and agriculture are important sources of
Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, in the mineral pitchblende (primarily a mix of uranium oxides) in 1789.Klaproth, as well as the rest of the scientific community, believed that the substance he extracted from pitchblende was pure uranium, it was actually uranium dioxide (UO2). After noticing that 'pure' uranium reacted oddly with uranium tetrachloride (UCl4), Radioactivity was first discovered in 1896 when Antoine Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, detected it from a sample of uranium. Today, uranium is obtained from uranium ores such as pitchblende, uraninite , carnotite and autunite as well as from phosphate rock , lignite (brown coal) and monazite sand . Since there is little demand for uranium metal, uranium is usually sold in the form of sodium diuranate , also known as yellow cake, or triuranium octoxide).
Australia has mined uranium since 1954, allowing the Australian economy to reap the benefits uranium has to offer (World Nuclear Association, 2017). Australia has the world’s largest resources of uranium, with exports in 2012 valued at $696 million (Geoscience Australia, 2013). As of 2017, there are three operating uranium mines in Australia; The Ranger mine in the Northern Territory and Olympic Dam and the Beverly-Four Mile mine in South Australia. There have also been a number of other mines which have since ceased operation (Kay, n.d.). Although there are a number of evident social and economic benefits, uranium mining is not without consequences and this can be seen through its impact on the Australian environment and hence, the practices
As one of the greatest alternatives to fossil fuels, an important advantage of nuclear energy is the significantly lower emission rate of CO2 in comparison to plants which use coal and natural gas.2 Nuclear power is not reliant on fossil fuels and therefore producing energy by this method reduces pollution and the contribution to climate change. However, whilst the actual process of generating energy releases few emissions, uranium must be mined and purified and in the past this has not always been an environmentally clean process.2 Ultimately, uranium will one day run out, but nuclear reactors are versatile and may also run on Thorium. Despite being finite, this would allow nuclear power stations to function for a longer period of time.