51. Anti-nuclear groups are mounting rallies to warn of the dangers of nuclear waste and the risk of terrorist attacks at nuclear power plants. 52. Another hitch, he acknowledged, has been Russian laws concerning the importing of nuclear waste. 53. Another problem, and one that Cheney fully acknowledges, is the lack of a national repository for the storage of nuclear waste. 54. As stockpiles of nuclear waste grew at the research reactor sites, European governments started pressuring the United States to make good on its agreement. 55. At first, NBC executives said nuclear waste was not typically carried by train, making the miniseries grossly inaccurate. 56. At the Oak Ridge site, Lockheed Martin is now handling nuclear waste and equipment management. 57. At the Energy Department, the next secretary will face a full plate of problems in nuclear wastes, environmental pollution and nuclear nonproliferation. 58. At the same time, the country faces a growing predicament of what to do with nuclear waste from power plants and weapons sites. 59. Bellona has focused on northwestern Russia, where submarine accidents, radioactive storage sites and the ocean dumping of nuclear waste have prompted fears of nuclear pollution. 60. Billions of gallons of nuclear waste that were stored there in vats leaked into the desert. |
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