21.   The House gave its overwhelming approval Wednesday to legislation authorizing the creation of a low-level nuclear waste disposal site in west Texas.

22.   The House approves funding for the yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal project.

23.   The nuclear disposal facility is backed by utilities and medical centers that generate radioactive waste.

24.   The proposed nuclear waste disposal site has long been a matter of fierce debate.

25.   The Yucca Mountain site would be discarded if tests prove Yucca Mountain to be unsafe for nuclear waste disposal.

26.   This week, Senate Republican leaders will attempt to cut off debate on a controversial measure aboaut nuclear waste disposal, a continuing issue that concerns Western state senators.

27.   At the plant itself, workers still monitor the now-idle reactors, and they are building a heating plant and facilities for nuclear waste disposal and reprocessing.

28.   Japanese energy planners see it as a long-term solution to nuclear waste disposal.

29.   Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the debate over nuclear waste disposal, polls have shown.

30.   Others are working on laser dentistry, airport radiation detectors, nuclear waste disposal -- even research on vaccines, by those who once worked on biological weapons.