Documentary film "Containment" premieres on PBS on Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10pm Eastern (check local listings)
(Be sure to check your local listings, as not all stations will air it.)
Beyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to serve in an advisory role for the film, and is thankful to have had a short interview included.
Others featured in the film include: Fukushima nuclear catastrophe survivors, the director of an independent investigation into the Fukushima catastrophe (Funabashi), and former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan; former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairmen Greg Jaczko and Allison Macfarlane; Rev. Willie Tomlin (whose congregation in Burke County, GA lives in the shadows of the Plant Vogtle atomic reactors, the Savannah River Site nuclear weapons complex, the Barnwell, SC radioactive waste dump, etc.); and such Beyond Nuclear colleagues as Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER, Dave Lochbaum of UCS, and Tom Clements of Savannah River Site Watch.
About the Film
How can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Toxic remnants from the Cold War remain in millions of gallons of highly radioactive sludge, thousands of acres of radioactive land, tens of thousands of unused hot buildings, and some slowly spreading deltas of contaminated groundwater. Governments around the world, desperate to protect future generations, have begun imagining society 10,000 years from now in order to create warning monuments that will speak across time to mark waste repositories.
Containment moves from a nuclear weapon facility in South Carolina where toxic swamps have led to radioactive animals, to a deep underground burial site in New Mexico, to Fukushima, Japan, where a triple meltdown occurred after the cooling systems at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant were interrupted, leaving that city a ghost town. The film is part graphic novel and part observational essay mixed with sci-fi that is more science than fiction, weaving between an uneasy present and an imaginative, troubled distant future, exploring the struggle to keep waste confined over millennia.
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Containment: Film Screening and Discussion, with Peter Galison, Robb Moss, and Kate Konschnik
Harvard Law School
A March 7, 2016 discussion with Peter Galison, Robb Moss, and Kate Konschnik following a screening of Galison and Moss's documentary Containment, moderated by Dean Martha Minow. Peter Galison is a filmmaker and Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. Robb Moss is a filmmaker, professor and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Kate Konschnik is a Lecturer on Law and the founding Director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental Policy Initiative of the Environmental Law Program.