Audio / Video

Take it and like it

Description

A film that examines what happens when one town's quest for stability encounters the nation's search for a place to bury high level radioactive waste. Most Nevadans and their legislators strongly oppose nuclear storage in their state, but in Tonopah many feel differently prefering to think of it as a nuclear resource, which they hope will help Tonopah climb out of its latest economic slump. Now the town's search for survival and the nation's search for a nuclear waste dump are meeting in the Yucca Mountain Project ... in a hollowed out mountain in Tonopah's backyard.

Details

Title

Take it and like it

Creator

Davidson, Kate.

Sigler, Bret.

Will, Steve.

Melland, Justin.

Chalford, Elan.

Reid, Harry, 1939-2021.

Ensign, John.

Eastley, Joni.

Robb, Andrea.

Campbell, John.

Clifford, Roy.

Gosling, Skip.

Threlkeld, Karen.

Wehner, Dave.

Creator

University of California, Berkeley. Graduate School of Journalism.

Davidson Sigler Productions.

Variant Title

Why would a town accept 70,000 tons of nuclear waste in its own backyard?

Published

United States, Davidson Sigler Productions, 2003.

Full Collection Name

Media Resources Center Selections

Subject (Corporate)

Yucca Mountain Project.

Subject (Topic)

Radioactive waste disposal Public opinion.--Nevada--Tonopah

Radioactive waste repositories Public opinion.--Nevada--Tonopah

Mines and mineral resources Nevada--Tonopah.

Nuclear weapons Testing.--Nevada--Tonopah

Radioactive fallout Nevada--Tonopah.

Geographic Coverage

Yucca Mountain (Nev.)

Tonopah (Nev.) Environmental conditions.

Tonopah (Nev.) History.

Yucca, Mont (Nev.)

Type

Video

Extent

1 videocassette (26 min.)

Other Physical Details

sound, color with black and white sequences

Dimensions

1/2 in.

Archive

The Library

Note

Produced as a masters thesis for the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

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Collection

MRC Selections

Tracks

TakeItAndLikeIt_0.mp4

Linked Resources

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