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Nuclear Waste
Season 3
Episode 1
The US is the only country with permanent storage for low & intermediate-level nuclear waste. But we're one of the few countries with nuclear power plants that don’t have a plan for high-level waste. Dr. Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy at DOE, and Dr. Allison Macfarlane, Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, discuss potential solutions.
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