• Jim's start as an extraterrestrial scientist and coordinator of shuttle activities.
• Transition to nuclear waste as he moved to PNNL as a geology pair with his wife, Judith.
• 3 styles of decision making in science policy: ignore science, make it the basis of the decision, retroactively justify the decision with science.
• Yucca Mountain is the wrong rock, dripping wet and corrosive.
• WIPP Carlsbad, New Mexico, Permian Basin has perfect salt chemistry.
• A comparison between the future of China and the US' nuclear industries.
• Dilution as a waste mitigation strategy, discussion of Fukishima and Tritium.
• A discussion of how the media sources portrays expertise.
• A discussion of grout v. glass vitrification processes.
• Waste disposal methods, political contentions, and the power of the Constitution.