Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has been temporarily stored on-site, but this is not a satisfactory kind of place for long-range storage. Since no suitable plan of safe permanent storage of such waste from the nation' s existing and planned nuclear plants has been devised, some people propose that we should stop trying to develop such a plan and instead should shut down all present nuclear plants and build no new nuclear plants. The proposal mentioned above falls short of offering a complete solution to the problem it addresses because ['it would prevent the development of safe technologies for producing electric power', 'it does not distinguish between nuclear plants that have, and plants that do not have, a reputation for operating safely', 'it does not provide for the permanent storage of already-existing waste', 'the risks of unsafe disposal of waste from nuclear power plants lie in the future, but the benefits from such plants are in the present']