Fri, Nov 20
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Chuck McCutcheon, Nuclear Reactions: The Ongoing Politics of a Radioactive Waste Site
Chuck will be in conversation with Senator Jeff Bingaman. The authoritative history of the most ambitious (and perhaps most controversial) nuclear waste repository in the United States, now in an updated edition covering twenty-five years of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s operation.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 20, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Nuclear Reactions: The Ongoing Politics of a Radioactive Waste Site($29.95, paperback) online from CWB or call the store to order
Before the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant received its first shipment in 1999, the facility had been actively planned for a quarter century and essentially completed for years, but it was plagued by over a decade of delays and has remained controversial since its opening. More than twenty-five years later, this new edition of the history of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant lays out the problems and conflicts behind those delays and controversies and how they continue to widen the gulf between America’s ability to create sophisticated weapons and its ability to show it can clean up after them.
About the Author
Chuck McCutcheon is a writer and editor in Washington, DC, and a former reporter for the Albuquerque Journal. He has written…