11.   Radioactive waste is simply spent fuel.

12.   Solid low-level waste will be disposed of deep underground.

13.   Additionally, this waste is a potential source of pollution when it degrades, releasing undesirable chemicals into the soil and air.

14.   The waste is mainly from obsolete nuclear weapons manufacturing plant.

15.   The waste is from US bases in Greece, Turkey, the Azores and Iceland amongst other countries.

16.   As a result, the waste is in danger of continuing to be stored in what are widely regarded as inadequate facilities.

17.   Only half the industrial waste was disposed of in official sites.

18.   In this context EC officials stressed, however, that waste was a unique case.

19.   Radioactive waste had been disposed at sea by the Northern and Pacific Navies and the Murmansk merchant fleet.

20.   Greenpeace has little idea of how radioactive the waste was in the four incidents described, or of how it was sealed in protective casing.