1.   And they scoff at pledges from backers of the radioactive waste dump that the material will be buried safely for all time.

2.   To raise money, the town is now turning the hole into a low-level radioactive waste dump.

3.   A visiting Chinese provincial official spoke out Wednesday against a planned Taiwanese radioactive waste dump he says could endanger his constituents, an evening newspaper reported.

4.   Apart from the aging and increasingly unsafe nuclear reactors, another dangerous legacy of the Soviet era is the numerous radioactive dumps scattered around the city.

5.   In North Germany, sit-down protests began on rail tracks near the radioactive waste dump where the shipment is headed.

6.   Two men were arrested trying to sell toxic materials they stole from a radioactive waste dump in northern Russia, a news report said Wednesday.

7.   Initial reports said that the deceased father may have found the lethal scrap of metal in a radioactive dump in Saku, between Tallinn and Kiisa.