CNN Pandoras Promise November 8, 2013 02:28:00
>> this was partially a commercial move on our part in the early 1950s. we were concerned that the soviet union that kept pace with us in the development of nuclear reactors for power would steal a march on us and get the commercial business in europe. so president eisenhower decided to share the benefits of nuclear energy with other countries. it was called a ed atoms for pe >> we have 50 years of water reactors, 400 roughly around the world and produced a heck of a lot of waste we didn't anticipate. you know, you mention 100,000 years of stuff you keep isolated from the rest of the world. th...