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Nuclear power opponents urged to reconsider stance
The Northern Territory Minerals Council (NTMC) has urged those opposed to nuclear power to consider its economic and environmental benefits.
NTMC spokeswoman Kezia Purick was speaking from a mining industry seminar in Darwin, where protesters have gathered to demonstrate against uranium mining and nuclear power.
Ms Purick says about 30 companies have uranium exploration licenses for the Northern Territory and she hopes they start looking for the resource soon.
She says the anti-uranium lobby should look to the future.
'What I say to the protesters is they should really get part of the evolution - and not keep themselves stuck in with the arguments of the 1950s and the 1960s - because industry has come a long way since that point of time,' she said.
'Advanced technologies and the technologies of uranium mining and milling in Australia are highly sought after on an international level.'
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