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In 1979, Tobe Carey, Pam Roberts and Ed Wierzbowski formed the Documentary Guild and began the Radiation Workers Project. The aim was to document workers in all phases of the commercial nuclear fuel industry from uranium mining through reprocessing and disposal. Over the next few years, the Documentary Guild produced four programs. The series covered an experimental plutonium fuel plant at Nuclear Lake near Pawling, NY; a worker with concerns about radiation safety at the Indian Point power station; the first nuclear industry strike at a Tennessee factory making depleted-uranium munitions; and employees at a nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant in West Valley, NY.

IN THIS PART OF THE SERIES: In 1958, a Rockefeller backed secret plutonium facility was established on a secluded 1,100 acre site in Pawling, NY. The plant and laboratory were sited on the south shore of the company named Nuclear Lake. United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) tested and experimented with uranium and plutonium for use in nuclear fuel. During its fourteen years in operations several accidents had occurred at the plant. In 1972 a chemical explosion blew out windows and spread plutonium radiation throughout the site. The operation was shuttered the next year with a clean-up cost of at least $3 million. We take a tour of the site and talk with two former workers about the history of the site, the explosion, the contamination, and the cleanup. Edited at Media Bus, Woodstock, NY

The series includes:

• Radiation Workers: Reprocessing

• Tennessee Heavy Metal

• UNC: Nuclear Lake

• Indian Point: One Worker's View