AUSTRALIA’S URANIUM

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27466, 28 September 1954, Page 13

AUSTRALIA’S URANIUM

Use For Peaceful

Purposes fN ?: Press Association— Copyright) ' Avsthu P n V- u EW y °RK, Sept. 28. imnkrlS,, whlch Promised to be an s °urce of uranium, hoped wnriH a^,J tS ful l part in the Proposed JlroiS- agency *°r developing the constructive uses of atomic energy, Mr R. rilijL Se i y ’ « h « .Australian Minister of al „ Affairs, told the United Nations General Assembly today. O aaey s ?id that Australia had i President Eisenhower’s origA toms-for-peace” proposal last year and again welcomed the subsequent proposal introduced before the rnfu ent assem bly last week by Mr State S ’ the nited States Secretary of

m Australia, where we are engaged in the development of what may oe a very rich endowment of uranium ore, are particularly interested in this new source of power which could greatly assist and expedite our development,” Mr Casey said. ‘Equally, we are concerned to proany project which could be a lead to reduce the danger of atomic war.’

The Minister said that Mr Eisennower s original proposal had “struck no response” from the Soviet Union, out on the eve of the present General Assembly the Soviet Union had agreed to consider negotiating again.