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Below is information about a lecture and film series I organize on anti-nuclear activism and research. All events open to the public.
Below is information about a lecture and film series I organize on anti-nuclear activism and research. All events open to the public.
Lecture: Jacob Hamblin
Lecture: Jacob Hamblin
“Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”
“Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”
Tuesday May 6, 4:00-5:30
Tuesday May 6, 4:00-5:30
University of Oregon
University of Oregon
Lillis 112
Lillis 112
Dr. Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University, is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects.
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Lecture: Shannon Cram
Lecture: Shannon Cram
Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
February 2025
Dr. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. She will talk about her new, award-winning book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which blends history, ethnography, and memoir. She investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities.
Film Screening: SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome
Film Screening: SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome
Film Screening & Q&A with Directors Mary Beth Branagan and James Heddle
February 2025
An award-winning documentary that dramatically chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality: tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea, that menaces present and future generations. The solution for the waste, to ship it to a storage site on indigenous land in the Southwest, causes the residents to rethink the decision to export their toxic waste.
Film Screening: Atomic Bamboozle
Film Screening: Atomic Bamboozle
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Jan Haaken
February 2024
This 46-minute film follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) from being built in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere in the country. The film revisits the toxic legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and its impacts on tribal communities and exposes the true costs of SMR designs that have been aggressively promoted by the US Department of Energy and the nuclear industry in response to the climate crisis.
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