S26E14 Firing Line with William F. Buckley, "Is There a Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal" 1107

Season 26, Episode 14 Firing Line with William F. Buckley, "Is There a Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal" Guests: C.D. Hollister, Arjun Makhijani. Moderator; Michael Kinsley. Air Date: 6/4/1991 Program details: Apart from actual meltdown, the biggest worry about nuclear power plants has to do with radioactive waste: how can you dispose of it without risking its radiation getting into the water supply, or being loosed by an earthquake? Mr. Hollister thinks he has the answer: sea mud. His verve in describing his idea (actually, an idea worked out in a 15-year study by scientists from 8 countries) is matched only by his lucidity in explaining it. CH: "To me the key is predictability. As you correctly point out, the key is going to a place where nothing has happened for the past 60 or 70 million years; therefore the next half-million years looks like a pretty safe bet, because the world is a probabilistic world."... AM: "The Department of Energy has been singularly unsuccessful politically and scientifically in managing nuclear waste. In 1970 they said: We will have a repository in 10 years. In 1982 they said: We will have a repository in 16 years. In 1990 they said: We will have a repository in 20 years." TEXT REF here: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:... Transferred and uploaded from my collection of old VHS tapes. 11-07