1.   Nor can the Market get rid of or store nuclear waste.

2.   The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies.

3.   Taiwan, which has three nuclear power plants, currently stores radioactive waste on a small island off the southeastern coast.

4.   A federal appeals court last summer rejected state arguments that federal officials had no long-term plans for storing nuclear waste.

5.   But no one wants to store the waste temporarily, for fear that it might never be moved.

6.   But there is a political consensus to store the waste there.

7.   Early on, they began storing nuclear waste in underground concrete tanks, most of which were built with only a single wall.

8.   Environmental groups say recent flooding points up the inherent dangers of storing animal waste in lagoons, but farmers say the system works fine if they follow the rules.

9.   Four other nuclear power plants in Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia already store their wastes above ground in casks.