The safe storage of nuclear waste is one of the world’s most pressing issues, yet not a single country has a well-worked out plan for these deadly and long-lived materials.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced in December that a site in West Texas is under consideration for testing on long-term radioactive waste storage.
Filmed in weapons plants, in Fukushima, and in a deep underground burial site, a new PBS film "Containment" explores the struggle to keep waste confined over millennia (stream the film here).
Guests:
- Peter Galison, filmmaker and professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University
- Robb Moss, filmmaker, professor and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University