1.   Bush expressed confidence in the planned dump site.

2.   But opponents of the planned nuclear waste dump say the Department of Energy has not answered those two caveats.

3.   Most recently, a planned nuclear waste dump in West Texas was blocked, in part, because of opposition from a hearing.

4.   In Putian, a spokesman for the county government said he was unaware of the planned dump or any possible joint action against it.

5.   The communist North has said the planned dump would worsen its relations with the capitalist South.