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Instructor: Dr. Rose O. Hayes is a medical anthropologist who spent her career managing public health programs in developing countries and as a U.S. public health official. From 2009 to 2015, she sat on the DOE Site Specific Advisory Board for SRS, chairing the Nuclear Materials Committee. Her many publications include Politics Trumps Nuclear Science (2014). Description: Some 70,000 tons of high-level defense and commercial radioactive nuclear waste wait for safe storage in the U.S. It is held in corrosion-resistant steel containers for 50 years, in cooling poos, in trenches (lined and unlined), in research labs, in the ground after accidental release from aircraft, and some in the seas or various other locations, with some unaccounted for. It will be lethal for thousands of years. There is no technology that can destroy it. Government attempts to develop safe repositories for its storage have failed. Government attempts to resolve the public safety, health hazards, and environmental threats are discussed.
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Ruth Patrick Science Education Center Room 117
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471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC
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