Jul 31, 2026 – 9.49amWhile India and China have placed big bets on nuclear power to provide a chunk of their future energy needs, the head of an ASX-listed uranium miner believes it makes little economic sense for Australia to follow suit – at least not yet.Greg Field took the helm of $1.2 billion miner Deep Yellow in May, and has adopted a starkly different approach to his predecessor John Borshoff, a larger-than-life character whose passion for the uranium industry was unrivalled.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mark WembridgeResources reporterMark Wembridge covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Perth. He formerly worked for the Financial Times in London and Hong Kong.Fetching latest articles
Nuclear reactors in Australia? ‘Absolutely not’, says uranium boss
Deep Yellow’s new CEO Greg Field says there’s a growing global market for uranium and wants an easing of state bans on mining the nuclear power feedstock.






