RADIO(active) Waves

This month's Radio(active) Waves is revisiting a previous subject to  celebrate Black History Month. We have been graciously granted  permission to release this episode using audio from an oral history that Professor Jeffries did in 1987. Join us as we learn more about this  interesting and insightful man in his own words.

As always please feel free to contact us with comments or questions at info@nuclearmuseum.org

For our December podcast, Radio(active) Waves had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Milo Schield. Dr. Schield is a consultant with the University of New Mexico, has a Ph.D. in Space Physics from Rice University, and is active in the world of academic statistics. Join David and Anna as we learn more about Dr. Schield’s mission within his field. Statistical Literacy can help to answer questions about the way that statistics help (and hinder) us when navigating a modern world filled with data and offers us clues about the way that statistics may have affected the public view of the nuclear industry.

As always, please feel free to contact us at info@nuclearmuseum.org

Episode description:

This month, Anna is in the UK! To commemorate her first bit of travel since we began the podcast mid-pandemic last year, we will be discussing the British Mission and their contribution to the Manhattan Project.

In the final installment of our interview series with Hal Behl, Manhattan Project veteran and Board of Trustees emeritus member at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Hal revisits his time living in Oak Ridge and, after the war, working at Boeing. He discusses some other important milestones in his life as well as some of the “things that we scrounged” for the museum. Hal speaks about everything from “top secret” slabs of lead, to Hal’s help with his boss’s NASA problems. Join us to hear about this and more!

Happy Holidays everyone! Today we’d like to give you all a little festive greeting card of a podcast episode to thank you for listening and to close out the year on a festive note. Thank you so much for listening and see you next year!

Episode seven of RADIO(active) Waves continues our interview series with Hal Behl, Manhattan Project Veteran and Board of Trustees member emeritus at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Today we explore Hal’s experiences working in the nuclear industry developing delivery systems, as well as his work highlighting nuclear medicine in the museum’s exhibits and collections. This mission to include nuclear medicine presented the opportunity for Hal to meet Glen Seaborg and earn his self-proclaimed title of “Joint Chairman of the Chief of Scroungers.”

In the second installment of our interview series with Hal Behl, Board of Trustees member emeritus of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, we explore Hal’s connections to the museum. This interview takes place at Hal Behl’s residence in Albuquerque, NM where David interviewed him about his life. This portion of the interview gives us a peek behind the scenes into Hal’s instrumental work facilitating the acquisition of several of the museum’s missiles and airplanes and developing the museum’s collections.

In this first installment of our interview series we hear from Hal Behl, Board of Trustee Emeritus of the National museum of Nuclear Science & History. Hal has had an interesting life and has been featured in television and other media for his part in the Manhattan Project. This interview takes place at Hal Behl’s residence in Albuquerque, NM. This portion of the interview gives us Hal speaking about his early years in the Bronx, his military career, and touches briefly on his time at Oak Ridge.

In this episode of Radio(active) Waves, we revisit the collections' storage and do a deep dive on a man named H. Russell Burner. This charlatan became known within the medical community of Southern California during the first decade of the 20th Century for peddling his "Radium, Milk, and Rest Cure". This "cure" was available for purchase at any of the locations of Burner's chain of sanitoriums. Join us to learn more about this fascinating and unscrupulous man.

In the second installment of our series on safety, we track the historical development of safety measures surrounding radiation. The more that was learned about radiation, the more complex our understanding of atomic science became. This allowed for more advanced measures to be taken to protect those who work with these types of materials. Today we understand that, with the right precautions, radioactive materials can be important and far less dangerous than they once were.

Join us for the first installment of our series “The Observer Effect”. In this series, we will explore histories connected to some of the lesser known or under-researched items in the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History's collections.

To kick off this series, we are talking about an often overlooked inventor, businessman, and hero named Garrett Augustus Morgan. Born in the American South in 1877 to formerly enslaved parents, this gentleman would become the first African American in Cleveland to own a car thanks to his brilliant intellect, entrepreneurial spirit, and sheer will power! As the inventor of early prototypes for both the gas mask and the modern stoplight, Garrett Morgan saved countless lives with his dedication to public safety.

Our introductory episode featuring an introduction to Anna Part and David Gibson our podcast hosts. In addition we begin our exploration into radiation history and how safety has changed throughout the years.  We also draw some similarities between the protective measures taken for radiation and the current pandemic. This episode is part one of the series on safety.