Jul 13 2006
唐·伯克（Don Burke），主席Australian Environment Foundation，呼吁对联邦政府对核能进行的调查进行大量扩展，因为当前的审查不会产生各种能源的选项之间的足够准确或有用的比较。
“我的成员告诉我，尽管核能可能是解决澳大利亚的可持续能源问题的解决方案，除非以有意义的方式研究所有解决方案并相互比较，否则我们将永远不会知道。
Mr Burke said that the inquiry was also only comparing nuclear power generation to ‘existing electricity generation technologies’.
“这似乎足够公平，除了委员会打算处理核电发电的'预计'而不是存在的成本，还将考虑使用未来的技术，例如从Thorium发电。
“In making decisions for power generation in 10 to 20 years time it is not a valid approach to take no account of the likely future costs and benefits of all competing technologies.”
伯克先生说，政府应该扩大现有调查的参考条款，或者对替代电力来源进行了许多其他专家调查，并通过中央常务委员会协调它们。
“ 2004年，石油的交易价格刚刚超过20美元，现在超过70美元。需要常务委员会，因为未来将是动荡的和不可预测的。”
“The issues paper released by the inquiry last week lists over 100 points, but only two of these deal with non-nuclear energy generation.
“这占委员会考虑的2％，与最有可能的情况不成比例，在这种情况下，煤炭和天然气将继续提供大部分超过50％的电力。”
Mr Burke said that the questions his members would like answered are:
- What is the ‘full cycle’ likely cost of all current forms of electricity generation?
- What is the ‘full cycle’ likely cost of emerging electricity generation technologies, including alternative forms of nuclear power generation, as well as coal, gas, hydro, solar, tidal, wind, and biomass?
- 从当前和新兴的发电技术中，“完整周期”可能的碳平衡是什么？
“澳大利亚有机会领导世界进行全面的比较研究，作为领先的能源生产国，是这样做的责任。
“It’s what my members want, and I’m sure it’s what most Australians want.”