All the nuclear waste created since Sizewell B started generating electricity in 1995 is currently stored on site under water in storage ponds.

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An expert on fertilisers at the University of London, Prof Andrea Sella, told the BBC it was possible that the highly explosive ammonium nitrate had also been stored on site.

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Lost in the shuffle, though, may be millions of legitimate files stored on the site by its users.

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The vast majority of this stockpile, which is expanding by about 2, 000 metric tons annually, is stored on-site at commercial nuclear reactors.

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There is also a new Facebook application, Print Your Days, allowing users to easily access and customize their photos stored on the social networking site.

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The hurdles are higher if you've stored credit card info on the site, but the overall laxity is disconcerting.

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It could be stored on a personal password-protected web site, with temporary access granted to any e-tailer a customer chooses.

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"Given the volume of real-time content on Instagram, some information may only be stored for a short period of time, " Instagram says on its site.

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All this is personal, private information, no longer even up on the original Web site, yet stored by Google for everyone to see, including friends, family and business associates who enter in the divorced couple's names.

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The trick is typically used for stealing a user's cookies--identifying files stored by his or her browser--or creating fraudulent, data-stealing entry fields on a Web site.

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