11.   The Supreme Court stayed out of a dispute Monday between electric utilities and the federal Energy Department over delays in building a permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel.

12.   The site is used to store certain types of nuclear waste temporarily until it can be shipped elsewhere for permanent disposal.

13.   They worry that the site, meant for interim storage, would become permanent since the federal government has no permanent disposal site.

14.   The Marshall Islands is lobbying Asian nations to consider this north Pacific nation as a permanent disposal site for high level nuclear waste.