All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. Welcome. I my name is Amanda Woodword and im the dean of the division of social sciences here at the university of chicago. Im just delighted to be here with this group of faculty for this event. This evening is continuing a yearlong series of events at the university of chicago commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first controlled selfsustaining Nuclear Chain reaction which happened just over there. Over the past five months, there have been events across campus xh commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments long term impact, and the events have presented u opportunities to engage scientists, artists and policy makers and the public around a set of events that grew from that original event 75 years ago. This evenings discussion im particularly delighted because it brings in social science in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in a moment. Each is a scholar and International Relation
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That we dont need these extra levels of production. Our concern is that assertion is not always on a full enough audience evidence and experimental data to justify making those decisions so the net reduction, so there could be a net reduction in safety if exemptions and other relaxations in safety procedures are granted based on our presumption that a new reactors safer without a full examination. So mr. Chairman the bill as a distracted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into advanced design reactors that make it safer automatically. Thats a nice assumption to make and its a nice assertion to make but thats going to be tested. We have to make sure that anyone additional potentially successful safety feature interacts with the totality of the rest of the Nuclear Power plants in terms of assuming the plant is safe. We dont know that. Its an assumption built into the language of the bill so this just goes to the question and it is an 8020 question. What are th
Pelley senior White House Correspondent bill plante at the white house for us tonight. Thanks, bill. The shutdown, as you know, is the result of republican attempts to roll back obamacare, but House Republicans appeared to be having second thoughts today and they began passing bills to fund parts of the government, despite threats of a president ial veto. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans moved to Fund National parks and the National Institutes of health after the nation saw stories about Sick Children shut out of cancer trials and veterans blocked from the world war ii memorial. House majority leader eric cantor. It is a shame that folks in this country who come to washington to be able to see these memorials cant. Reporter as he spoke, a small group of furloughed workers demonstrated nearby urging lawmakers to reopen the entire government. Why are you pushing for monuments to be opened instead of, say, headstart preschools for lowincome children . Isnt that
Then, in his words, we are in trouble. Pelley senior White House Correspondent bill plante at the white house for us tonight. Thanks, bill. The shutdown, as you know, is the result of republican attempts to roll back obamacare, but House Republicans appeared to be having second thoughts today and they began passing bills to fund parts of the government, despite threats of a president ial veto. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans moved to Fund National parks and the National Institutes of health after the nation saw stories about Sick Children shut out of cancer trials and veterans blocked from the world war ii memorial. House majority leader eric cantor. It is a shame that folks in this country who come to washington to be able to see these memorials cant. Reporter as he spoke, a small group of furloughed workers demonstrated nearby urging lawmakers to reopen the entire government. Why are you pushing for monuments to be opened instead of, say, headstart prescho