Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission

Citizens' jury on nuclear waste, South Australia, 2016 A jury that told a government no and was heeded. After a royal commission recommended facilities for used nuclear fuel from several countries, South Australia's government put the idea to a citizens' jury of 350 people. In November 2016, two-thirds of them concluded a disposal facility should not be pursued under any circumstances. Premier Jay Weatherill responded that an absence of bipartisanship stood in the way of progress and that his government would not pursue a change to its policy, while promising a referendum and staying open to the question if community mood shifted. The clearest case here of deliberation stopping a project rather than starting one.