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Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities, with Kate Brown
Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities, with Kate Brown
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Chernobyl is considered the greatest nuclear disaster of all time. But over decades America's Hanford plant and Russia's Mayak plant each issued almost four times the amount of radiation as Chernobyl. Historian Kate Brown explains that in the closed atomic cities serving these plutonium plants, "residents gave up their civil and biological rights for consumer rights." How does today's America mirror these segregated plutopias?
Released:
Nov 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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