Victoria will hold its own inquiry into the feasibility and suitability of the nuclear power.

A Liberal Democrats motion for a nuclear power inquiry passed the state’s upper house last week.

It lays out a 12-month plan to look at scrapping the state’s ban on nuclear to help combat climate change.

It will look at waste management, health and safety, and possible industrial and medical applications of nuclear technology.

It comes just a week after the Federal Government announced it would have a look at nuclear issues too.

“If we have these issues with climate change we need to look at all the options available to us and at the moment we’ve got laws prohibiting certain options and we think that those options should be on the table,” Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick said when tabling the motion in June.

“The young people of today no longer fear nuclear holocaust. Today’s young have a new fear – global warming,” Mr Limbrik told the Legislative Council last week.

“There is a demand, both here and throughout the world, for new ways to generate energy that emit lower levels of carbon dioxide.”

Greens MPs have described the planned inquiry as a waste of the state’s resources and time, given that it has a 50 per cent by 2030 renewable energy target being written into law.