Nuclear Shadows

Morgan Miller
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No screaming, no sound effects — just the true, unsettling history of nuclear accidents, told straight. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Episodes

  1. 20h ago

    S1E8 The Coverup That Killed

    Season 1, Episode 8. On September 29, 1957, a buried waste tank exploded at the Soviet Union's secret Mayak plutonium plant — and the state said nothing for thirty-two years. This is the true story of the Kyshtym disaster: the explosion, the fallout, and the coverup that kept thousands of people living inside the danger. All facts, told straight.

  2. 2d ago

    Bonus Episode: The Horror That Killed

    Bonus Episode. Part one of a two-part Halloween special. On December 30, 1958, a Los Alamos chemical operator switched on a stirrer and was hit by a blue flash of nuclear fire — then walked out of the tank room saying, "I'm burning up." This is the true story of Cecil Kelley, the loaded tank nobody warned him about, and the thirty-five hours that followed. All facts, told straight.

    Bonus Episode: The Horror That Killed

  3. 4d ago

    Current Event Special: The Reactor That Came Back

    On May 20, 2022, operators at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan permanently shut down its reactor. By August 2026, workers were placing fuel back into the same reactor. The intervening four years involved changing ownership, substantial government financing, regulatory approvals, extensive equipment inspections, and an unusual reversal of a nuclear plant's retirement. Palisades was being prepared to become the first American commercial nuclear reactor returned to service after entering decommissioning. As of October 28, 2026, the restart remains incomplete.

  4. Oct 26

    S1E7: The Spokesman That Killed

    A valve stuck open, a light that lied, and a spokesman who could not explain himself. The true story of Three Mile Island, 1979: the meltdown that was an engineering failure, and the communication failure that froze American nuclear power for thirty years.

    S1E7: The Spokesman That Killed

  5. Oct 25

    Nuclear Shadows: Fiction Under Investigation.

    This episode examines a disaster that never happened: the 2024 Hong Kong film Cesium Fallout. A recycling yard fire. A sealed cesium source. A storm carrying contamination across Hong Kong. None of it happened — but the film asks us to believe it could. So Morgan investigates it the way she investigates any other disaster: narrating the story, then fact-checking it at every point where it departs from reality. The poster fireball that physics won't allow. The magnesium. The Goiânia comparison. And a three-part verdict: was the accident plausible, were the consequences justified, and were the institutional failures credible?

    Nuclear Shadows: Fiction Under Investigation.

  6. Oct 22

    S1E6: The Glitter That Killed

    Season 1, Episode 6. A powder that glows an impossible blue in the dark. They thought it was treasure — they rubbed it on their skin and gave it away as gifts. The true story of Goiânia, Brazil, 1987: the worst radiological accident in the Western Hemisphere, and the powder that killed with its beauty.

  7. Oct 19

    S1E5: The Screwdriver That Killed

    Picture a monster. Fangs, claws, fire, something you could at least see coming. The men in this story had a monster too, and they had a name for it. They called it the dragon. But this dragon was the size of a grapefruit. It sat perfectly still on a laboratory bench, cold and silent and ordinary to the eye. And it killed two men with something no eye can see, no ear can hear, and no hand can feel. Until it is far too late. This is the story of the Demon Core. One ball of plutonium, two dead men, and a laboratory that watched the same experiment kill once, changed nothing, and watched it kill again.

  8. Oct 18

    ☢️ New bonus episode: "The Reactor That Killed... Itself?"

    January 21, 1969. Lucens, Switzerland. An experimental reactor buried in a mountain cavern — built to prove the Swiss could go nuclear on their own — overheated, melted, and blew apart its pressure tube. No one died. The reactor was the only casualty. The killer was invisible and months old: water from a blower seal had leaked into the coolant circuit, corroding the fuel cladding from the inside. No instrument caught it. By restart day, one fuel assembly was already doomed. The twist: the accident did NOT end Switzerland's secret A-bomb program. That ran until 1988.

    ☢️ New bonus episode: "The Reactor That Killed... Itself?"

  9. Oct 14

    S1E4: The Bucket That Killed — The Tokaimura Criticality Accident

    They were told the plant needed no inspection. Then three men carried buckets into it, and poured them through a funnel, one after another, until the uranium did what uranium does. On September 30, 1999, at a fuel-processing plant in Tokaimura, Japan, a routine procedure went catastrophically wrong — and a nuclear chain reaction started in a steel tank. It burned for twenty hours. Two years earlier, a fire at a nearby plant had been shrugged off. This is the story of what happened when nobody looked twice. Nuclear Shadows is the true, unsettling history of nuclear accidents, told straight. No screaming, no sound effects. New episodes every Monday and Thursday. Sponsored by flooftags — one-of-a-kind laser-engraved pet tags at flooftags.com Follow the show:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nuclearshadowspodX: https://x.com/NukeShadowPodBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nuclearshadowspod.bsky.socialThreads: https://www.threads.com/@nuclearshadowspod #NuclearShadows #TrueCrime #NuclearHistory #Podcast

  10. Oct 12

    The Rod That Killed

    At 09:01 on a January night, a control rod came out too far. Four milliseconds later, twenty-six thousand pounds of reactor were in the ceiling. The true story of SL-1: the night shift at an Idaho desert reactor, one pull of a rod, and the fastest disaster in American nuclear history.Nuclear Shadows is a documentary horror podcast — a calm voice telling terrifying true stories. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

    The Rod That Killed

  11. Oct 11

    The Warmth That Killed — The Lia Nuclear Incident | Nuclear Shadows Ep. 2

    The forest was freezing. The strange metal boxes they found were warm — so the three men slept beside them. The true story of the Lia incident: two abandoned strontium-90 sources, a night in the Georgian woods, and the heat that was killing them. No screaming, no sound effects — just the true, unsettling history of nuclear accidents, told straight. New episodes every Monday and Thursday. #NuclearShadows #TrueHorror #NuclearHistory

  12. Oct 10

    The Wall That Killed

    She slept with her bed against the bedroom wall every night. The wall was killing her. The true story of a lost cesium-137 source, an ordinary Soviet apartment, and nine years of invisible murder.

  • 12 Episodes

About

No screaming, no sound effects — just the true, unsettling history of nuclear accidents, told straight. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Information

  • Creator
    Morgan Miller
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Morgan Miller
  • Show Website
    Nuclear Shadows