SOUTH Australia should embrace a nuclear future to help prop up the state's stagnating economy.
The vision for a nuclear future for SA was one of the many ideas thrown up by 50 of the state's finest minds when asked by The Advertiser 'What reform or change is urgently needed to grow the state economy and jobs'.
Other ideas thrown up by the 50 participants focused on lower taxes, help for small business, becoming more advanced technologically and ending of support for industries that could no longer sustain themselves.
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Some of the more left-field ideas proposed to kickstart the economy included, lifting the ban on genetically-modified foods, changing the time zone to bring it in line with the eastern states, and building a new performing arts venue.
South Australia's London-based agent general Bill Muirhead believes SA is the perfect place for Australia to start-up a nuclear industry, for both economy-boosting and environmental reasons.
"As a state with an estimated 40 per cent of the world's known deposits of uranium, it makes sense for South Australia to be striving to become the world experts on nuclear power,'' said Mr Muirhead, who was also a founding partner of global advertising giant M &C Saatchi.
"Given these vast deposits and that South Australia is one of the most stable places in the world geologically and politically, it could be argued we have a responsibility to ensure the safe disposal of the nuclear waste our uranium produces.''
The concept of a domestic nuclear industry was also seized on by Defence Teaming Centre chief executive officer Chris Burns who predicted the state could become the "future Dubai of the world" if it went nuclear.
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