Twenty years ago in the early days of the civilian
nuclear waste repository program, while we were struggling with a variety of issues as to how to assure the reproducibility of the analytical work, the kind of cavalier attitudes toward software QA / QC that is now demonstrated by many climate scientists was not all that uncommon among the many scientists employed by the repository project..
Hall questioned the Administration's decision to pull the plug on the Yucca Mountain
nuclear waste repository, to cancel the Constellation space
program to return astronauts to the moon, and to revamp a troubled $ 14 billion
program to launch a flotilla of environmental satellites.