"Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island" film screening and discussion
Start: Thursday, March 28, 2024• 7:00 PM
End: Thursday, March 28, 2024• 9:00 PM
Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island is a new documentary by American filmmaker Heidi Hutner.
On March 28, 1979, a nuclear reactor in the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania malfunctioned and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in US commercial nuclear power plant history, but officials downplayed the event itself at the time and surrounding communities were bathed in radiation as they struggled to navigate an atmosphere of misinformation and confusion. This film examines that fatal day and its repercussions on the mental and physical health of the surrounding communities.
Montreal for a World BEYOND War and Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility are co-hosting this event.
Itinerary
- 7:00 pm to 8:17 pm: Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island screening
- 8:17 to 8:29 pm: Break
- 8:29 to 9:00 pm Speakers and Q&A with the audience.
- 9:00: Those who wish can continue the conversation upstairs in the Tipsy Cow bar
Speakers
Cym Gomery, Coordinator of Montreal for a World BEYOND War will be master of ceremonies. We have three wonderful speakers for this event!
- Gordon Edwards, nuclear expert and anti-nuclear activist of CCNR will speak about nuclear energy as a threat to human health;
- Dr. Michael Dworkind, Past President and Board Member IPPNWCanada will speak about the long term effect of exposure to radioisotopes, like cancer and birth defects.
- Robert Del Tredici, artist, photographer and author of The People of Three Mile Island will speak of his work researching the Three Mile Island disaster for his book and his subsequent travels to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, and to the twelve nuclear weapons facilities in the US while researching At Work in the Fields of the Bomb.
After the three speakers, we will have about 20 minutes for questions, after which we must leave the Cinema by 9 pm. Those who wish to continue the conversation in the bar just upstairs from Cinema du Parc.
