91.   Kerekes acknowledged that disposal of radioactive waste was still an issue but argued that plant safety is not a problem because of strict standards and licensing regulations.

92.   Lawmakers will reprise a debate that stalled two years ago on whether management of low-level radioactive waste should be privatized.

93.   LEGISLATION FAILED Would have allowed storage of low-level radioactive waste at certain state-run nuclear power plants.

94.   Lisa Davis of The San Francisco Weekly received the award for environmental reporting for stories on the mishandling of radioactive waste at a San Francisco shipyard.

95.   Low-level radioactive waste is routinely transported without incident across Texas and the rest of the nation.

96.   Most obviously, the pebbles themselves would become hard-to-dispose-of radioactive waste.

97.   Nearly every day, tractor-trailer rigs loaded with radioactive waste in huge shipping casks depart for the various storage sites around the country.

98.   Normal shipments of high-level radioactive waste, including spent power plant fuel, are accompanied through urban areas by police escorts.

99.   Nuclear fission, the technology currently used to generate power, relies on the splitting of nuclei to release their energy, and leaves a residue of radioactive waste.

100.   On the banks of the Maili Suu River where radioactive waste from the plant is stored signs warn of the hazard at one of the sites in the area.