We Are the Guinea Pigs
1980
6.0 (1)
1 hr 30 min
English
Three Mile Island and the Catastrophe of Nuclear Power
Farmers and parents of young children, who live in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, discuss their fears of radioactive contamination from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident in 1979. Scientists and physicians also expound on the lethal dangers of nuclear power and the risks in containment processes.
- Status
- Released
Keywords
- pennsylvania, usa
- radiation
- nuclear radiation
- animal death
- radiation sickness
- nuclear power
- nuclear accident
- dairy farmer
- stillbirth
- three mile island
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Top Cast
Joan Harvey as Self - Interviewer (voice)
Michio Kaku as Self - Professor of Physics, City University of New York
Clair Hoover Sr. as Self - Dairy Farmer, Middletown, Pa.
Walter Hooper as Self - Parent, Harrisburg, Pa.
Sheryl Hooper as Self - Parent, Harrisburg, Pa.
Gene Adams as Self - President, Local 1688, United Steelworkers of America
Tom Jenkins as Self - President, Harrisburg Coalition of Black Trade Unions
Suzanne Magda as Self - High School Teacher, Harrisburg, Pa.
Top Crew
Joan Harvey · Director, Editor
Tom Hurwitz · Cinematographer
Newton Thomas Sigel · Cinematographer
Trudy Bagdon · Editor
Ralph Klein · Producer
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