Age: IT HAS long been an anomaly that a country with almost 40 per cent of global uranium reserves should have shut the door on using that resource to meet its own energy needs. The Howard government thought so when it commissioned the Switkowski inquiry, which found in late 2006 that nuclear power should have a role in meeting Australia’s energy needs. The then Labor opposition responded in the run-up to the 2007 election by exploiting the not-in-my-backyard mentality as it highlighted likely …