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SCIENCE STUDIO: Radioactive Storage

  Keith & Russ talk with Andrew Gaunt, a chemistry researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Gaunt explains the 3 types of radioactivity, and the work he does at LANL  with plutonium compounds.  He also talks about the problems the U.S. is facing in disposing spent nuclear fuel, and presents possible solutions.

Aired April 20, 2014.

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