Richard Marles (Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I take the interjection. The idea that the reactor in Lucas Heights is about to power cities around Australia says everything about how those opposite have no idea how nuclear energy works.

The Leader of the Opposition come up here earlier and said that all we need to do is to get some uranium together and burn it, and, if we burn some uranium, that's how we'll create energy. That's the level of their understanding. The idea that Lucas Heights, which is a research facility which produces medical isotopes, is somehow going to be a reactor which powers cities says everything about how they have no idea what they are talking about.

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