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March 28, 2024 marks the 45th Anniversary of the Three Mile Island meltdown—the worst commercial nuclear power accident in U.S. history.

+RADIOACTIVE rolls out on streamers Apple+ and Amazon Prime Video on March 12, 2024.

Watch the film on Apple+ or Amazon Prime Video - then join us:

+March 28, 2024, 8:00 p.m. EST. Webinar hosted by Beyond Nuclear, “Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, Gender, Justice, and the Future of Nuclear Power.” (Register Here).

Speakers include Director Heidi Hutner, Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Project), Ana Rondon and Krystal Curley (Navajo Nation), and Green Energy expert Professor Mark Jacobson (Stanford University). Moderated by Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear)

+March 20, 2024, 6:00 p.m. RADIOACTIVE will screen at New York Law School. Tix available soon. Director, Producers, and Cast will attend the Q & A. Hosted by the Forum on Life, Culture, and Society. (Free Tix Here)

For more in-person screenings see our “screenings” page.

RADIOACTIVE Awards:

*Audience Pick Best Documentary — Dances With Films Festival, NYC

*Best Director and Best Documentary — Full Frame International Film Festival, NYC

*Best lnvestigative Documentary— International Uranium Film Festival

Praise for RADIOACTIVE:

RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND [is] a compelling and significant documentary in the grand tradition of such trailblazing women filmmakers as Kimberlee Acquaro, Christine Choy, and Barbara Koppel … this is a film that should be rated in supernovas, not stars. —EDWARD MORAN, CINEMA DAILY USA (FULL REVIEW: HERE).

Heidi Hutner’s award-winning RADIOACTIVE is a masterpiece…. I can’t wait to see where this filmmaker goes next.—KARL GROSSMAN, PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM AND JOURNALIST (see full article HERE).

RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND is a stunning award-winning film. It asks the important question: should we or shouldn’t we with nuclear energy? First-time filmmaker Heidi Hutner answers this question with solid research and interviews with scientists, engineers, whistleblowers, physicians, and most importantly with the victims themselves. RADIOACTIVE is a must-see tour-de-force for anyone who cares about our energy future and our planet. —JON BOWERMASTER, AWARD-WINNING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER (Radio Interview HERE)

Most of America would be shocked to know the true story of the meltdown at Three Mile Island. Far fewer would ever want the thing in their backyard. Prof. Hutner takes us there and meets the people who have no choice but to call the worst nuclear meltdown in U.S. history their neighbor. This chilling feminist thriller unveils a host of cover-ups and criminal actions by the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)—who put this community in mortal danger. The intrepid women and mothers in RADIOACTIVE face Goliath and fight back until the bitter end—to uncover the truth and protect their community. The filmmakers have created a powerful personal story that will resonate deeply with everyone who sees it. –DAVE CHAMEIDES, TWO-TIME EMMY-AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR and AWARD-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER.

AUDIENCE REACTIONS: ‘Shocking,’ ‘Inspiring,’ ‘Can’t stop thinking about it,’ ‘Intense and deeply moving,’ ‘Should win and Academy Award,’ ‘Everyone needs to see Radioactive,’ ‘Powerful and frightening,” “On the edge of my seat….” And at all screenings to date: sold-out theaters and thunderous standing ovations…..

View the RADIOACTIVE trailer here:

A resonant story about a battle of wills, hubris, and energy – atomic, maternal, moral, and feminist.

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.