This 46-minute film follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) from being built in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere in the country. The film revisits the toxic legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and its impacts on tribal communities and exposes the true costs of SMR designs that have been aggressively promoted by the US Department of Energy and the nuclear industry in response to the climate crisis.

Official selection: 2023 Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle; Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF) February 22-25th, 2024, Golden, CO; International Uranium Film Festival 2024

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsPt_xUt7I

Official website: https://www.atomicbamboozle.com/

more on Jan Haaken’s films: https://www.jhaaken.com/featurefilms

Contact: Rachel DiNitto (rdinitto@uoregon.edu)