My Nuclear Life
On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in everything from culture to medicine. This podcast explores how nuclear science has impacted and changed our world in both beneficial and destructive ways. We explore the intersection of nuclear science and society using interviews with historians, policymakers, experts in their fields, and first-hand accounts to weave a picture of your nuclear life.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Soviet bone records, Tom Lehrer, and music for your nuclear protest with Tim & Joanna Smolko
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher speaks with Tim and Joanna Smolko, authors of Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music. They discuss atomic music across…
01:07:37 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Deep beneath the surface: Innovating nuclear waste disposal with Elizabeth Muller
In this episode, Lexie Weghorn and Shelly Lesher discuss nuclear waste disposal with Elizabeth Muller, CEO of Deep Isolation. Topics include nuclear energy’s “waste problem”, how nuclear waste is cur…
00:36:42 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Hanford Lab Pt. 2: How the DOE got into the museum business with Robert Franklin
In this episode, Shelly continues her conversation with Robert Franklin, Archivist & Oral Historian at the Hanford History Project. They discuss how Hanford's B-Reactor became a Manhattan Project Nat…
01:02:17 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Hanford Lab Pt. 1: The triumph of the engineer with Robert Franklin
In this episode, Shelly and Robert Franklin, Archivist & Oral Historian of the Hanford History Project dive into the history of the Hanford Laboratory and B-Reactor located in Washington State. They …
01:20:48 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Quarky News: Volk Field 1962
In this new segment of My Nuclear Life find out what happens at Volk Field one snowy night in 1962.
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00:16:09 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
Radium: Luxurious, Beautiful, Expensive, and Modern with Lucy Santos
In this episode Shelly Lesher and Lucy Jane Santos, author of the book Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium discuss the beauty industry, salons, and radium in consumer products.
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00:55:24 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Nuclear newsletters, queer theory, and Freedom of Information with Martin Pfeiffer
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Martin Pfeiffer, a Ph.D. student of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is best known for his twitter account, @NuclearA…
00:56:47 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
The War Science Won? Building the bomb, ingenuity, and politics with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 3)
Part 3 of our conversation with Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The conversation picks up the historical narrative of the WWII development a…
00:46:54 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
How to turn the US into a factory: Beer in Hanford, Silver from Fort Knox, and PO Box 1663 with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 2)
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, Shelly Lesher continues her conversation with Richard Rhodes, author of award winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Their previous conversation left off wit…
00:50:13 |
Fri 01 Jan 2021
How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)
Today on My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes. This conversation has been broken up into three parts. This Part 1 discussion includes topics l…
00:59:27 |
Fri 01 Jan 2021
Sunshine in a bottle. The origins of using radiation as a modern cancer treatment with Aimee Slaughter
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Aimee Slaughter. They discuss early radium therapy its journey from sideshow attraction to a staple in US hospitals before WWII. This…
00:39:47 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Thwarting nuclear ambitions with sanctions: Iran, North Korea, and ... Sweden? with Richard Nephew
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Richard Nephew. Richard was the lead sanctions expert on the US negotiating team for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -…
00:31:48 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
How do you celebrate Alaska Statehood? Nuke them a harbor with Dan O'Neill
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Dan O’Neil. Dan is author of The Firecracker Boys. In this book, he speaks about Project Chariot, a U.S. atomic energy project in Ala…
00:52:59 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Saving the world with nuclear energy, one microreactor at a time with Leslie Dewan
In this episode of My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher interviews Dr. Leslie Dewan. Leslie earned her PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and is a cofounder of Transatomic Power, one of the first sta…
00:36:02 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
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