Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary film SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy. The film chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality—tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea. The solution for the waste, to ship it to a storage site on Indigenous land in the Southwest, causes the residents to rethink the decision to export their toxic waste. The film’s producer/directors Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle will engage in discussion following the screening.

This talk is part of the  “Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan” film and speaker series that links nuclear accidents in Japan with the U.S. The series will bring three speakers, two filmmakers, and one film to campus in winter and spring terms to discuss nuclear issues and activism in the U.S. and Japan. This series is of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest because of the Hanford Site in Washington and the new push for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors along the Columbia River.