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Ep 20: Jim Conca, Forbes

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  • Jim's start as an extraterrestrial scientist and coordinator of shuttle activities.

  • Transition to nuclear waste as he moved to PNNL as a geology pair with his wife, Judith.

  • 3 styles of decision making in science policy: ignore science, make it the basis of the decision, retroactively justify the decision with science.

  • Yucca Mountain is the wrong rock, dripping wet and corrosive.

  • WIPP Carlsbad, New Mexico, Permian Basin has perfect salt chemistry.

  • A comparison between the future of China and the US' nuclear industries.

  • Dilution as a waste mitigation strategy, discussion of Fukishima and Tritium.

  • A discussion of how the media sources portrays expertise.

  • A discussion of grout v. glass vitrification processes.

  • Waste disposal methods, political contentions, and the power of the Constitution.

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  • Jim's start as an extraterrestrial scientist and coordinator of shuttle activities.

  • Transition to nuclear waste as he moved to PNNL as a geology pair with his wife, Judith.

  • 3 styles of decision making in science policy: ignore science, make it the basis of the decision, retroactively justify the decision with science.

  • Yucca Mountain is the wrong rock, dripping wet and corrosive.

  • WIPP Carlsbad, New Mexico, Permian Basin has perfect salt chemistry.

  • A comparison between the future of China and the US' nuclear industries.

  • Dilution as a waste mitigation strategy, discussion of Fukishima and Tritium.

  • A discussion of how the media sources portrays expertise.

  • A discussion of grout v. glass vitrification processes.

  • Waste disposal methods, political contentions, and the power of the Constitution.

  continue reading

466 episodes

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