07: Neon Green Energy (Part 01)

Seemingly overnight, a coordinated blitz for a "nuclear power renaissance" has emerged. Big tech billionaires, millennial energy start-ups, and the Trump administration all insist that deregulating nuclear power is the only way to secure America's economic, computing, and national security futures. Well-meaning liberals, desperate to decelerate climate change, are overlooking the documented dangers of radioactive energy production, from the environmentally and culturally catastrophic practices of the uranium mining industry, to the inevitability of future Chernobyls and Fukushimas, to the absolute lack of any plan whatsoever for what to do with the nuclear waste that such a transition is bound to produce.  On the first part of Neon Green Energy, you'll meet UK curator Jason Waite (Don't Follow the Wind); interdisciplinary photographer Abbey Hepner; and Greenpeace nuclear specialist Shaun Burnie. Environmental historian Traci Brynne Voyles (Wastelanding) and anthropologist Joseph Masco (The Nuclear Borderlands) both return to share their perspectives on the temporal and environmental fantasies inherent to the promotion of nuclear technologies.  Learn more, make a donation, or find a text-based version of today's program at: timezeropod.com.