Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island

Directed By Heidi Hutner

A feminist feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown with never-before-told stories.

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At the prompting of an ecofeminism professor turned visual journalist, the four original “concerned” mothers, a two-woman legal team and a reporter, now all much older, wiser, and bolder, break open years of corporate silencing and nuclear industry doublespeak, and tell their stories about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, the worst commercial nuclear reactor meltdown in U.S. history. And though this disaster took place in 1979, the life and death implications continue in the spiritual, physical, and political DNA of the community, its residents, and their descendants.

Heidi Hutner is a first-time award winning documentary feature filmmaker, a professor at Stony Brook University, and a widely published author.

Hutner has a passion for telling human stories about underrepresented peoples. 


RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND (Hutner's first film), a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown--explores the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history through a feminist lens.The documentary covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers, two lawyers who took the local community's case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist who was caught in the radioactive crossfire. RADIOACTIVE features activist and actor Jane Fonda--whose film, CHINA SYNDROME (a fictional account of a nuclear meltdown), opened 12 days before the real disaster in Pennsylvania.


Current Project: ATOMIC FIRE, a feature documentary, delves into the resurgence of nuclear weapons development at Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atom Bomb, through the voices of intrepid Diné (Navajo) mother and daughter, Anna Rondon and Krystal Curley. Since the 1940s, their community has borne the devastating consequences of nuclear colonization, and they have fought for decades to protect their people from the specter of extermination.


Directed and Produced by Heidi Hutner and Krystal Curley, Diné (Navajo)

Produced by Anna Rondon (Navajo)

Producer and Composer Lyla June Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages.