ALP buries Hawke's nuclear waste revolution  By David Humphries
and Wendy Frew September 28, 2005  The Labor Party yesterday
rejected out of hand the proposition by the former prime
minister Bob Hawke that Australia should store the world's
nuclear waste and use the income to enhance the environment.
Geologists and environment groups also warned the proposal was
fraught with danger, both in the transport of the waste and the
unsolved issue of safe storage.  They said that while age made
Australia geologically stable, millions of years of "deep
weathering" meant engineers would have to burrow deep into the
earth to find the hard rock needed, significantly increasing
costs.  Addressing a gathering of fellow Oxford University
graduates in Sydney on Monday night, Mr Hawke said Australia was
geologically the safest site for nuclear waste storage.  "We
would revolutionise the economics of Australia if we do this,"
he said.  "That does not represent Labor Party policy," was the
curt response of the Opposition Leade