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Max Bluementhal from the Grayzone Project talks about his recent visit to Syria, the recovery of the Fukishima crisis, Impeachment and more! PLUS viewer questions and NPR's Propaganda!

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• 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.  

Many outstanding questions concern the accidents at the Fukishima nuclear power plant in the wake of the March earthquake, tsunami and ongoing aftershocks in Japan. Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan has criticised the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company and its executives for their handling of the situation and in recent days the company has apologized for the nuclear crisis. But it's not surprising that top-level executive decision-making has come under scrutiny in Japan, says Hodaka Morita, a professor at the Australian School of Business and an Australian research fellow. Recent economic history has made many Japanese workers better at calling the shots than their bosses, he claims.