An Areva employee looks at the storage wells at the Areva Nuclear Plant of La Hague, near Cherbourg, western France, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. Silent and sealed in steel cylinders thrust underground, 15 years worth of high-level nuclear waste from the world's most nuclear-energized nation lie in wait beneath a jutting tip of Normandy. AP Photo logo AP Photo 50 months ago

An Areva employee looks at the storage wells at the Areva Nuclear Plant of La Hague, near Cherbourg, western France, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. Silent and sealed in steel cylinders thrust underground, 15 years worth of high-level nuclear waste from the world's most nuclear-energized nation lie in wait beneath a jutting tip of Normandy.

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