11.   Environmentalist say atomic waste exudes radiation and cannot be rendered harmless.

12.   Greenpeace, the environmental group, says a French company plans to ship atomic waste from plutonium production to Japan for use in nuclear reactors there.

13.   Police used water cannons and dogs to hold back thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators Friday as a train loaded with atomic waste neared a temporary storage site in northern Germany.

14.   Protests regularly mark transports of atomic waste out of Germany by anti-nuclear activists, who argue that shipping the nuclear material endangers the public.

15.   Riot police used truncheons and water cannon Wednesday in a fierce clash with anti-nuclear demonstrators who tried to block a truck loaded with atomic wastes.

16.   Riot police used truncheons and water cannon Thursday in a fierce clash with anti-nuclear demonstrators who tried to block a truck loaded with atomic wastes.

17.   Skubitz also intervened when the Atomic Energy Commission considered storing atomic waste in Kansas salt mines near Lyons.

18.   The icebreaker Soviet Union shares a wharf with five old ships, each laden with atomic waste and highly radioactive nuclear fuel rods.

19.   They said the attacks were probably connected to a planned transport of atomic waste from a northwestern temporary storage area in Ahaus.

20.   Initiatives were also announced to crack down on dangerous dumping of atomic waste and smuggling of nuclear materials.