If You Love This Planet

September 02

Diane D’Arrigo: The Enormous & unending problem of nuclear & contaminated waste - On If You Love This Planet this week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Diane D’Arrigo about the massive and ongoing problem of nuclear and contaminated waste. D’Arrigo is the Radioactive Waste Project Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). D’Arrigo, who has been with NIRS since 1986, has a degree in chemistry and environmental studies and has closely followed so-called “low-level” nuclear waste issues for decades. Relevant to this episode, read the 2007 NIRS press release New Report Finds Nuclear Weapons Materials Released to Landfills Pathways Open for Reuse and Recycling.