London | Australia is not the only country in the throes of a nuclear debate. The Swedish government last week began an inquiry that will likely overturn a six-year-old ban on uranium mining – and an ASX-listed company stands to be the biggest beneficiary.

Melbourne-headquartered miner Aura Energy has a tenement in central Sweden, about 650 kilometres north-west of Stockholm, where the company is already progressing a plan to mine vanadium and sulphate of potash.