what's happening in hanford, washington, is scary, but it was predictable, a manmade crisis of our owns the technology we think we need as a country, we don't know how to handle it if something goes wrong or if something goes right, but what the heck, full speed ahead, sorry, hanford. all right. this right here is canadian tar sands oil. see how it kind of looks like a solid? that's part of the problem. we are currently having a big debate in the country about tar sands oil, mostly about whether or not we want to build the infrastructure in our country to facilitate the delivery of more of that chunky stuff to market. i mean, it is oil. we use a lot of oil. we need oil, we love oil, but we also happen to have no freaking clue how to handle that particular kind of oil when something goes wrong with it in transit. tonight in mayflower, arkansas, here's what local officials are dealing with. that is diluted tar sands oil all over the streets, reportedly encroaching on a local lake after an exxonmobil pipeline ruptured on friday. while it is an absolute mess for emergency response crews to

does the department of energy status quo at hanford acceptable this year. i have a number of other questions coming and. what is your assessment of what needs to be done recognizing that you are going in, but we also recognize that you have considerable expertise because you have got this history and let's get your take on what needs to be done and in particular, given the fact that a rise of the years have gone by, the price tag has gone up. billions of dollars involved what is your take about the department of energy need to do given that you have said the status quo is unacceptable? >> let me ask you first to say going back to the spirited discussions that you referred to that when i was undersecretary you pointed out some issues that frankly i hadn't been aware of and i think we made some progress on. they range from science like really advancing to managing some of the issues that we had at that time. i think we for successful with moving in the fuel flexible away from the columbia river, and we also i think address at that time for lack of a better te

radioactive iodine will call steroids pathology down when they were doing secret experiments at the hanford nuclear reservation in the one nine hundred fifty s. we found out about it in the one nine hundred ninety s. under president clinton when it was finally revealed and if anybody had any doubts the church noble catastrophe that began in one thousand nine hundred six had an eruption of thyroid pathology in ukraine belarus and russia by comparison poland as soon as it found out about the chernobyl catastrophe some days into it because of the cover up by the soviets immediately distributed potassium iodide pills to its population they do not have a thyroid up demick in poland so given you said that we you know there's a long history of knowing the effects of what happens. when these sort of nuclear disasters occur and you said we have these tests we knew this was coming how is our government to handle this knowledge and prepared for it. deafening silence in fact congressman ed markey a democrat from massachusetts a decade ago now got a bill passed into law got it in acted it's the law of t

hanford and watched tv. but, to be honest, we kind of let them go and do what they're best at. we found a good and praise it. but if their is a secret, and i think in our family and from what i have seen of your book it is the bond a brotherhood and the support that siblings can give each other which he so eloquently write about. he paints a portrait of the entire emanuel family, including a tough old world set of grandparents, a loving father who emigrated to the u.s. with $25 to work as a doctor. a politically engaged mother took her sons to protest rallies including rallies in the streets of chicago led by martin luther king. so we have a lot to look forward to as we hear the story, which i am really looking forward to. tonight zeke will be in conversation with a senior editor of the atlantic, at james beard award winner and the author of the joy of coffee. for the audience portion of the q&a, please come up to one of the microphones in the center aisle. there will be a book signing following the event, and we are really looking for work of welcoming to our states tonight ze

. >> hanford has producing storage of this military rate. should we move forward on looking at that as a solution. >> it led to comingle in the 1980s. i am no longer obligated. so it is certainly in order. if i am confirmed, i really want to push that evaluation. >> okay. we want to move forward. making a commitment to our national laboratories and development of smart technology, hoping that you will develop a concentrated strategy. >> i'm not concentrated that. >> i feel that the department and the lab's work best when working together in a strategic way on the major mission priorities, the grid is one of those. and frankly i'm going to be looking at a different way with the laboratory directors and they engage more in the strategic of where we all go together. >> thank you, senator risch. >> i appreciate it. probably out of all the projects that you have going on, that incorporates your philosophy and you said so in your statement here, i was glad to see that the cleanup from the cold war is a moral imperative. probably the closest one yo