1.   An independent consultancy, Environmental Resources, has strongly criticized the selection of a site near Sellafield as a possible underground nuclear waste repository.

2.   A House committee approved Thursday a resolution to move ahead with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

3.   Bush, for example, reversed his position in favor of a nuclear waste repository along the Mexican border only after extensive protests by the Mexican government.

4.   One Democrat at the hearing, Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, made it clear she supports having a centralized waste repository.

5.   Supporters of the Yucca waste repository say the opposition is not faithful to science.

6.   The authors make the assumption that a nuclear waste repository will eventually leak.

7.   The scientists who say that the crystals pose no problem for a waste repository work for the Energy Department.

8.   Those conditions might be met in an underground nuclear waste repository such as Yucca Mountain, Bowman and Venneri suggested in an unpublished paper distributed to their colleagues.

9.   It said the atolls were repositories of radioactive material but met none of the desirable geological characteristics of a nuclear waste repository.

10.   Last week, President Bush called for a national nuclear waste repository as part of his energy plan.