Uranium Derby Documentary and Discussion with Filmmaker Brittany Prater

A filmmaker discovers her hometown was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project. Her investigation into this history triggers a chain reaction of encounters through which it becomes clear that the topic of nuclear waste has been more successfully buried than the waste itself.

Uranium Derby is a feature-length documentary about a young woman’s look into an experiment gone wrong—the American nuclear experiment. This film depicts the manner in which toxic nuclear waste, generated and collected in a few specific places, was allowed to spread to numerous sites around a small Midwestern university town and subsequently the country.
The story, centered in Ames, Iowa, begins with a curious native filmmaker (Brittany Prater) casually looking into her hometown’s highly secretive involvement in the Manhattan Project during the 1940s.

Brittany Prater will join us for a screening of Uranium Derby and will be available for a Q&A session and discussion afterwards. Join us for this fascinating historical conversation about an event that happened less than 100 miles away!

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