Ep 20: Jim Conca, Forbes
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy · Titans of Nuclear
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Show Notes
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Jim's start as an extraterrestrial scientist and coordinator of shuttle activities.
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Transition to nuclear waste as he moved to PNNL as a geology pair with his wife, Judith.
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3 styles of decision making in science policy: ignore science, make it the basis of the decision, retroactively justify the decision with science.
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Yucca Mountain is the wrong rock, dripping wet and corrosive.
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WIPP Carlsbad, New Mexico, Permian Basin has perfect salt chemistry.
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A comparison between the future of China and the US' nuclear industries.
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Dilution as a waste mitigation strategy, discussion of Fukishima and Tritium.
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A discussion of how the media sources portrays expertise.
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A discussion of grout v. glass vitrification processes.
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Waste disposal methods, political contentions, and the power of the Constitution.