About My Nuclear Life Podcast

About:

On July 16, 1945 in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in everything from culture to medicine. This podcast explores how nuclear science has impacted and changed our world in both beneficial and destructive ways.  We explore the intersection of nuclear science and society using interviews from historians, policy makers, experts in their fields, and first-hand accounts to weave a picture of your nuclear life.

The first season of six episodes was dropped at the end of December 2020.  On March 02, 2021 we began releasing episodes every other Tuesday. Life/work got ahold and episodes are now released the last Tuesday of every month.

Additional material is available on Patreon.

Hosts:

Shelly Lesher is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (UWL) where she teaches undergraduate physics and conducts nuclear research. This podcast is based on a class she taught at UWL about how physics impacts society, and society impacts physics. A version of this class was also taught as a seminar at Yale University.

Lexie Weghorn was a senior physics major at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse where she helped research this podcast and provide feedback in the very early days. She has since graduated UWL and is pursuing graduate work in nuclear physics (congrats Lexie!!). She is still a loyal listener.

Support:

** Production costs for Episodes 1 - 13 were provided through National Science Foundation Grant PHY-1713816 & UWL Physics.
** Production costs for Episodes 13 - current: provided through National Science Foundation Grant PHY-2011267 & UWL Physics.

This webpage and hosting services are paid for by our amazing Patreons!

Our goal is to produce a quality podcast and offer it for free to everyone. 

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Email:

Feel free to send comments or suggestions to the podcast email mynuclearlife at protonmail.com