Audio/Video: Uncertainty in Long Term Planning-Nuclear Waste Management, A Case Study
Watch video and listen to podcasts from Uncertainty in Long Term Planning-Nuclear Waste Management, A Case Study. The Jan. 7-8, 2008, symposium and celebration was held in honor Frank L. Parker, Distinguished Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
The conditions of nuclear waste management today were examined as a basis for exploring the potential paths forward over the mandated time period of 1 million years. Technical, programmatic, social, financial and natural risks over these time periods, as well as inter- and intra-generational responsibilities, are considered. The possible changes, both positive and negative, in medical knowledge, technology, society and environmental conditions are discussed. Speakers and additional participants with diverse technical, social, political, philosophical and national backgrounds propose potentially societally acceptable paths forward and the advantages and disadvantages of each of the paths.
Sponsored by: The Mason Foundation, The Garrick Foundation, and The Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation.
12. Claes Thegerstrom: "Progress in Implementation of a System for Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Sweden - Technical and Social Aspects" Watch with Windows Media Player | listen to the mp3
19. Charles W. Powers: "What Characteristics of High Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Do or Should Shape Our Concepts of Intergenerational Ethical Responsibility for Their Disposition?" Watch with Windows Media Player | listen to the mp3
Watch: VUCast: A feel good football story and healthy walking, Vandy style
A feel good football story; gotta love the great outdoors; and move-it, move-it Vandy-style. It’s VUCast time for Nov. 6. (5:41)
Watch: Challenges for America: Telling the Story of Exploration
Watch video of a Nov. 4 talk by Dr. Rick Chappell, CNGR, Public Affairs, Research Professor of Physics and Lecturer in Science Communications.
Watch: Critical Care Tower ribbon cutting
Watch the Nov. 5 ribbon cutting ceremony for Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s new 11-story, $169 million Critical Care Tower.
Watch: "A People’s Past Continues to Be Living History"
Watch video of a Nov. 4 talk by Reverend James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor.
Watch: A Survivor's Story
Watch video of concentration camp survivor Martin Weiss speaking at the 2009 Holocaust Lecture Series.
Watch: VUCast: Inspiration through Aspirnaut and Google earth's Vandy connection
The inspiration of Aspirnaut, and there’s always a Vanderbilt connection. It’s VUCast time. (4:26)
Watch: "Poems and Poem-talk" with Rosanna Warren
Watch video of the Harry C. Howard Lecture with renowned poet and critic Rosanna Warren.
Watch: "Worlds Above the Sky: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope"
Watch video of an Oct. 28 talk, "Worlds Above the Sky: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope," by Dr. Bob O'Dell, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Watch: "Avoiding the Evils of Eugenics in a Genomic Age"
Watch video of an Oct. 27 talk, “Avoiding the Evils of Eugenics in a Genomic Age,” by Ellen Wright Clayton, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy.
Watch: Chancellor's Lecture Series: "On Shifting away from Training toward Education"
Watch video of an Oct. 28 talk by Woodie Flowers: “On Shifting away from Training toward Education,” part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series.
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