31.   Participants warned of the danger of large-scale diversions of nuclear materials from Russian nuclear storage sites.

32.   A temporary nuclear waste storage facility is currently under construction at Rokkasho, another town in Aomori Prefecture.

33.   Bellona claimed that atomic warships and weapons are poorly maintained by underpaid, demoralized soldiers, and that security at nuclear storage facilities is lax.

34.   But Seoul says that the plan poses grave environmental problems and endangers the Korean Peninsula, because North Korea cannot be trusted with providing a safe nuclear storage facility.

35.   But South Carolina continues to fight in the courts, maintaining the U.S. government has no long-term plans for nuclear waste storage.

36.   Civil defense workers have been sent to the region to ensure the safety of nuclear storage sites, ITAR-Tass reported.

37.   Civil defense workers were sent to the region to ensure the safety of nuclear storage sites, ITAR-Tass reported.

38.   Facing domestic opposition to nuclear waste storage, Taipower has sought sites in Russia and the Marshall Islands.

39.   He said he first wanted an assurance from Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto that progress was being made toward finding a permanent nuclear waste storage site elsewhere.

40.   He said other nations were trying to lure nuclear waste storage away from Russia.