61.   Congress must approve the arrangements, known as compacts, which give states the right to control the disposal of low-level radioactive waste.

62.   Consolidating all that radioactive waste in one place will solve problems festering since the dawn of the atomic age, according to the Department of Energy.

63.   Deadly radioactive waste started leaking from the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island at least three years ago, the Energy Department said last week.

64.   Early last month, the Cerro Grande Fire came dangerously close to engulfing radioactive wastes stored underground at the labs.

65.   During the arms race, radioactive waste was dumped directly into the soil and the river.

66.   Environmentalists have been slow to embrace nuclear power plants as an alternative, mostly because of the high-level radioactive waste they produce in the form of spent fuel rods.

67.   For instance, it will take thousands of years to know whether the environmental effects of buried radioactive waste will be as predicted.

68.   For more than three decades, we now learn, Russia and the former Soviet Union have secretly pumped huge amounts of radioactive waste into the earth.

69.   Ford will be the place where low-level radioactive waste is brought, waste that will usually take the form of tainted dirt from Manhattan Project-era experiments.

70.   Former workers at nuclear weapons plants across the country are charging in lawsuits that they were sickened and colleagues died from years of exposure to radioactive waste.