US energy secretary says Australia should ‘get in the game of supplying uranium’

Chris Wright also tells conservative conference Australia developing shale gas would be a tremendous resource' - despite Australia already being one of the world largest producers and exporters of both LNG and uranium

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The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, has said he would love to see Australia get in the game of supplying uranium and maybe going down the nuclear road themselves".

Australia is already the world's fourth-largest producer of uranium, but nuclear power remains banned at national level.

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