1.   American scientists recently were shocked to learn that Russians secretly have injected much of their atomic waste directly into the ground for years.

2.   A team of scientists from the Department of Energy Wednesday strongly backed the recently proposed idea that atomic wastes buried deep underground might erupt in a nuclear explosion.

3.   For more than three decades, Russian scientists have disclosed, the Soviet Union and now Russia secretly pumped billions of gallons of atomic waste directly into the earth.

4.   Geno Griego puts metals through tests of the effects of atomic waste.

5.   Recently a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington said the industry would never pursue injecting atomic waste into the Earth.

6.   The industry is waiting for the federal government to develop a safe underground storage place for caskets holding the solid atomic waste.

7.   Phillippsburg, Germany -- Start of train transport of atomic waste across Germany.

8.   A carting firm is planning frequent rail shuttles of atomic waste to temporary storage facilities in Germany in coming years, a newsmagazine reported Sunday.

9.   A shipment of atomic waste from three German power stations was heading Wednesday toward a reprocessing plant in France after a brief blockade by anti-nuclear protesters.

10.   Both incidents occurred near the train station at Dannenberg, a north German town where the atomic wastes arrived by train on Monday from southern Germany.