81.   But this is quite different from an outright export of nuclear waste.

82.   But viewed from Nevada, creating a single site for nuclear waste is a step down a dangerous path.

83.   But underlying even the politics is a familiar issue of national policy regarding which state will have to accept nuclear wastes.

84.   By recycling fuel, breeders would cut down on the amount of nuclear waste that would otherwise have to be buried or sunk in the ocean.

85.   Colorado lawmakers are divided over the legislation, which, if passed, may mean shipping tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste through the state.

86.   Congress is under immense pressure from the nuclear energy industry to remove growing stockpiles of nuclear waste from power plants around the country.

87.   Conversely, the Goshutes, a tribe in central Utah, decided last year to lease part of their reservation as a storage ground for high-level civilian nuclear waste.

88.   Daniel Dreyfus, the US Energy Department official in charge of dealing with nuclear wastes, is skeptical about the prospects for such a plan ever winning public acceptance.

89.   Democrats earlier charged Murkowski had stalled on the vote to pressure the Clinton administration to accept interim storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

90.   Drey is a St. Louis environmentalist who has campaigned in Missouri and across the nation for a quarter-century against nuclear power and the disposal of nuclear wastes.