Minister Warns 12,000 Farms at Risk Under Opposition’s Nuclear Energy Plan

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has claimed 12,000 farms could come under a “radiation alert zone” if the opposition’s nuclear energy policy comes to fruition. Mr. Watt also raised concerns nuclear reactors could draw from the nation’s water source, potentially at the expense of farmers. “What we have established from research from the parliamentary library is there are nearly 12,000 Australian farms who live within an 80-kilometre radius of one of the proposed nuclear reactor sites,” Mr. Watt told ABC News Breakfast on July 18. He also warned farmers would need to take steps to ensure they were safe from any radiation leak....