Radiation Workers

The Radiation Workers Series In 1979, Pam Roberts, Ed Wierzbowski and Tobe Carey formed the Documentary Guild and began the Radiation Workers Project. The aim was to document workers in all phases of the “nuclear fuel cycle”. Over the next few years, the Documentary Guild produced four documentaries. They covered workers at an experimental plutonium fuel operation at Nuclear Lake, a worker with concerns about radiation safety at the Indian Point power station, the first nuclear industry strike at a Tennessee factory making depleted-uranium munitions, and employees at a nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant in West Valley, NY. 1) Indian Point: One Worker's View 24:20 min. 1983. One worker talks about his time at Indian Point, and how he received high radiation dose in minutes while on the job. He and his wife explain the difficulties they faced at work, within the union, and in the community, when they began questioning radiation safety practices at the plant. The last operating power plant a