FRESH meeting. Part 1.
- Date:
- 1989
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Description
The residents discuss the decommissioning process with the information they have gleaned from various sources. Then Dr Stewart comments on the lack of forthcoming data from the authorities to complete the board's task and contextualises her involvement. She talks at length about her research into in utero exposure to X-rays in the 1950s, the survivors of the A-bomb in Japan and workers at the Hanford nuclear facility (Washington State, USA). Ends abruptly; go to Part 2.
Publication/Creation
Ohio : John Baumann, 1989.
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1 Betacam NTSC tape (31:30 mins.)
1 Digibeta PAL tape (31:30 mins.)
1 VHS BITC PAL tape (31:30 mins.)
1 DVD (30 mins.)
1 Digibeta PAL tape (31:30 mins.)
1 VHS BITC PAL tape (31:30 mins.)
1 DVD (30 mins.)
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Wellcome Trust 2009.
Notes
The Fernald Feed Materials Center in Fernald (Ohio, USA) was in operation between 1951-1989 and processed uranium for nuclear weapons facilities.
More material about Alice Stewart is available in the Wellcome Library PP/AMS.
Part 1 of 3; an informally shot meeting of FRESH; Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health. This meeting was attended by Dr Alice Stewart, aged 83 at the time, who explains her involvement on the board, which was commissioned to produce an independent assessment of the health risks of low level radiation around this facility. (She was an honorary member of the department of social medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK.) This footage was captured at the point where the plant is being decommissioned. The authorities are tackling social and environmental repercussions amidst growing dismay over long term health effects from local residents and former employees.
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Produced by John Baumann.
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