Meaningful Movies Spokane with UUCS teamed with Meaningful Movies Port Townsend and Mount Baker to bring you March’s selection: Atomic Bamboozle. Join us on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96698666643), Monday, March 11, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. for the movie and discussion afterwards.

As pressure mounts in the U.S. to meet net zero carbon goals, the nuclear power industry is promoting small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) as a technological solution to the climate crisis. Atomic Bamboozle, a 46- minute documentary follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decadeslong campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon, using those lessons to stop small modular reactors from being built in the Pacific Northwest.

A tribal member points to the buried legacy of atomic weapons production and nuclear power generation at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State and to its devastating impacts on tribal communities. An internationally recognized scholar on nuclear power traces the history of nuclear power generation from the 1950s to the present and takes up four main problems — costs, accidents, waste and proliferation — and shows how the industry continues to deny or disavow these persisting problems in the much-heralded generation of “new nuclear.” The industry is bamboozling the American public.

With the current rush to fund SMRs at the federal level and industry’s pressuring to overturn state laws restricting nuclear power plants, this timely documentary requires our urgent attention.

Special Guests: Cathryn Chudy, Film Associate Producer, Roger Lippman, Nuclear Free NW