July 26th, 1979. Geraldo Rivera for 20/20 ABC news investigates the importing of nuclear garbage from other countries into the United States.
“…this spent fuel contains enough plutonium for several hundred platonic weapons. We feel that it’d be much better to remove that material and bring it back to the United States…”
We hear from anti-nuclear activists, watchdog groups, and related industry personnel for both sides of the issue. With plutonium’s lifespan at 2,400 hundred years, what exactly will we do with this spent reactor fuel? On the other hand, how safe is it to leave the building blocks for weapons of mass destruction lying throughout the globe?
Also reviewed are the countres in the world known to have the atomic bomb, and the countries that may have the atomic bomb.
Nuclear energy is generally accepted as necessity today in 2025, though the debate remain contentious.
This day, Geraldo’s show history.