Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.