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July 5, 2011 06:10 am PDT
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Documentary on half-built nukes seeks crowdfunding
Cdr sez, "Michael Cook wants to make a documentary about some of the US nuclear reactors whose construction was abandoned following Three Mile Island in 1979. His Ulule page has some lovely pictures of abandoned industrial decay, like the ghosts of a future we turned away from." Cook is a a noted Canadian sewer-spelunker and urban explorer: "Michael Cook is a researcher, photographer and graduate student in Toronto, Canada. He is best known for his work documenting historic hydroelectric infrastructure at Niagara Falls, and sewer systems throughout Southern Ontario, much of which is published on his website, vanishingpoint.ca." Failed projects, like the sites I am visiting, offer our best chance of gaining a true sense of the scale, materials and feeling of nuclear power infrastructure. They also tell a powerful story about the failure of a technocratic engineering and planning culture---the cancellation of these projects didn't just result in tens of billions of dollars in write-offs, but in the bankruptcy of several of the utility companies that were building them. My project presents an opportunity to improve the depth of our familiarity with the physical presence of nuclear power in our lives and landscapes, and with the frailty of the entire endeavour. Temples of the Atom (Thanks, Cdr!)...
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