Radioactive waste disposal. – Pacifica Radio Archives

WIPP’s greatest hits / produced by Bill Abbott, Tim Shelenbaum, and Fran Austin.

Excerpts from the public hearing on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant proposed by the Department of Energy. Pros and cons on the nuclear waste disposal site planned for Carlsbad, New Mexico.

August 24, 2025

Wells River and the nuclear trash can / produced by Rafaello Mazza and Tina Reimann.

Report about citizen efforts to prevent the Department of Energy from utilizing a granite formation near Wells River, Vermont (population 2,000), as a nuclear waste dump.

August 24, 2025

Shut them down! / Dr. Michio Kaku ; interviewed by Clare Spark.

Physicist describes nuclear tsuris: accidents and deaths at nuclear power plants, unsafe disposal, and other hazards. Includes pro-nuclear phone-ins.

August 24, 2025

Nuclear waste disposal / Shel Plotkin ; interviewed by Anita Frankel.

Consulting systems and safety engineer discusses the unsolvable problem of nuclear waste.

August 24, 2025

Plutonium revisited / Nina Goldstein, Bob Olson, Paul Jones and Thomas Cochran.

Debate over the transportation of plutonium, focussing upont the dangers.

August 24, 2025