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Nuclear technology: the shady beginnings and the uncertain future

ABC RN, Broadcast Mon 8 Jan 2024,  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/nuclear-technology-history-and-future/102960302?fbclid=IwAR2QQafugR_2Vy3Est_CdP4MVvA6gu7g-nypcNFKhe5ixGEX8VCdTgrJpEM

The history and development of the nuclear industry is shrouded in secrecy and contradictions. And its future is throwing up more questions than answers.

A scientist, a historian and a poet consider the economic, scientific and social realities of nuclear technology.

They discuss how the lessons from the past might shape an uncertain future, and the possible consequences of playing God.

Nuclear Fallout was presented at the Brisbane Writers Festival. May 10, 2023

Original broadcast on July 6, 2023.

Speakers

Associate Professor Elizabeth Tynan

Coordinator of the professional development program at the James Cook University Graduate Research School

Author of The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia, NewSouth Publishing, May 2022

Shastra Deo

Poet and writer; Author of The Exclusion Zone, UQP 2023

Ian Lowe

Environmental scientist, Emeritus professor at Griffith University,

Ashley Hay (host)

Novelist and essayist, former editor of Griffith Review, editorial consultant for the Climate Justice Observatory

January 11, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual