51.   Rumyantsev said after the visit that Russia had not yet made a final decision on whether to build a nuclear waste storage site on Novaya Zemlya, Interfax reported.

52.   Russia is planning a new nuclear waste storage site in a remote northern region because existing facilities have been filled to capacity, nuclear officials said.

53.   She said the proposal had nothing to do with a separate project for a domestic nuclear waste storage facility.

54.   The interministerial meeting was also considering where establish a nuclear waste storage site.

55.   The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, argues the state laws are pre-empted by existing federal laws that regulate nuclear waste storage.

56.   The United States has already provided several hundred million dollars to help Russia build new nuclear waste storage and disposal facilities.

57.   Thefts from poorly guarded nuclear storage sites in the Baltics also have been blamed for the proliferation of radioactive substances in the region.

58.   Ukraine and a consortium of French firms signed a deal Wednesday to build a nuclear waste storage facility at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

59.   Yanev said his committee had proposed to parliament to set up a fund for sealing the units and burying them, and also for building nuclear waste storage facilties.

60.   Environmental campaigners and local residents on Monday won their fight to stop a proposed underground nuclear waste storage plant at the Sellafield reprocessing plant in northwest England.