Discussed this week:The events that may have led to the release of radioactivity in Russia back in August, and also Hardtmayer takes a moment to reflect on the defueling of the Sellafield MAGNOX reactors.
RNE25's guest is Dr. Richard Muller, who is the current CTO of Deep Isolation, a company which aims to solve the nuclear waste issue. He is a professor Emeritus of Physics at UC Berkeley. He founded two Nobel Prize-Winning projects in experimental physics, related to the discovery of dark matter, and the structure of the big bang. He has won multiple prizes, including the coveted MacArthur Prize ("the genius award"), and is the author of over 15 Deep Isolation patents, of which three have been awarded.
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