As the mining boom busts the nuclear waste bonanza is part of PMs good idea nation. The crown-of-thorns and fertilisers are busting the Barrier Reef . Dredgers are busy investing silt in the Reef to grow the business and could easily add value with sweet , light plutonium . The sugar-cane waste nutrients will be up-graded to proton-phosphates and the starfish will glow green in the sunset. Tourists will gaze intoxicated at the swirling 2 headed fish and mushrooming clouds of radiant corals.
Buy now before the price cycle rises .

And Li Ruipeng is clogging up the political system with free fake $40K Rolexes.

At least the science is genuine:
Synthesis and Characterization of Uranium(IV) Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate and Cerium(IV) Phosphate-Hydrogenphosphate Hydrate
Article in Journal of Solid State Chemistry 178(4):1054-1063 · April 2005 

A new uranium (IV) phosphate of proposed formula U-2(PO4)(2)(HPO4H2O)-H-., i.e. uranium phosphate-hydrogen phosphate hydrate (UPHPH), was synthesized in autoclave and in polytetrafluoroethylene closed containers at 150 degrees C by three ways: from uranium (IV) hydrochloric Solution and phosphoric acid, from uranium dioxide and phosphoric acid and by transformation of the uranium hydrogenphosphate hydrate U(HPO4)(2)(.)nH(2)O. The new product appears similar to the previously published thorium phosphate-hydrogenphosphate hydrate Th-2(PO4)(2)(HPO4H2O)-H-. (TPHPH). From preliminary studies, it was found that UPHPH crystallizes in monoclinic system (a = 2.1148(7) nm.
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Crown Uranium prospect (Crown Uranium group; Tenn-Cal )

www.mindat.org/loc-76998.html

Crown Uranium prospect (Crown Uranium group; Tenn-Cal claims)

Doesn't the radioactive waste from this stuff last for a thousand years
Or so,

Leave it in the ground.
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Dear CHERFUL,

Some isotopes can last for billions of years.

Did you know there have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations?

We poor land locked creatures are being constantly bombarded by radiation. And if you're really unlucky you might get squashed by a meteor.

The proposed 'dump' is not actually a dump; it is a facility that would take a decade or more to build - well beneath the ground. It the operation would even have its own exclusive port to take in the waste. SA certainly needs the money.

Where the most technologically advanced nation cannot solve the problems after decades of annual promises, one would be forgiven for thinking there might be some problems handling, transporting and storing nuke waste.

http://www.gao.gov/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_nuclear_waste/issue_summary

Amazing how Australian politicians can go to the US and after being feted and treated as an important dude by the US State Department, suddenly offer to take Uncle Sam's most toxic waste.

"Hey, just throw it all onto container ships, send it halfway around the world and lob in our backyard, OK?".

"Pleased to help and yes, the dumb-arsed Ozstarilian federal Parliament will always swallow the promises, just like Maralinga and other sites of nuke testing".

As for nuke waste being high profit business and it might even be used again, as if Uncle Same, the UK and other countries would be planning to dump it in Oz if there was any prospect of making a profit out of it.

The waste lasts forever. The political promises are short-term, easily made and easily broken.