After Dark: Radioactive

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Presentations

Measuring Radioactivity
With Berkeley RadWatch
6:30–9:30 p.m.  |  Gallery 2

Eight years after the release of nuclear materials at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, scientists have been tracking radiation levels in the sea to monitor and collect data. Come see how they do it with UC Berkeley’s Radwatch, as they show off some of their data-collection tools and discuss their ongoing research.

Environmental Justice in the Bayview:
A Radioactive Shipyard in Hunter's Point
With Sheridan Enomoto
7:30 p.m.  |  Gallery 3, Webcast Studio

Bayview-Hunters Point, in southeastern San Francisco, is the site of the defunct Hunters Point Shipyard. In addition to the waste from irradiated ships, the site is contaminated with radioactive paint used to make glowing deck markers and devices, and radioactive materials used in fuels and pesticides and for lab experiments. Learn from climate and environmental justice community organizer Sheridan Enomoto about ways the community is impacted by radioactivity in Hunter’s Point and other similar areas. Stay tuned to hear about some possible solutions.

Full Spectrum Science: Radioactivity
With Ron Hipschman
8:00 p.m.  |  Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum

Radioactivity can hurt us or help us; it’s found everywhere in our environment and lets us see inside ourselves at the doctor’s office. In the comics, it even turned Peter Parker into Spider-Man and Bruce Banner into the Hulk! We’ll look at different forms of radiation, its dangers, its applications, and how the human body reacts to it, with Exploratorium scientist and host Ron Hipschman.

Live Projection and Performance
With Flatspot + Science Band
9:00 p.m.  |  Bechtel Gallery 3, Webcast Studio

Expand your mind with Scienceband & Flatspot_’s  experimental performance of interactive visuals and live jazz.  Musicians in lab coats will be jamming jazz tunes and reciting science facts about radioactivity while analog looping projections simulate "visible" radiation fill the room. Using a analog video feedback projection audience members can experiment and interact with the performance in visceral way.

Ongoing

Building a Cloud Chamber
With the Explainers
6:30–9:00 p.m.  |  Gallery 3, Explainer Station

All around you, all the time, radiation from space strikes the atoms that make up all the matter around us. Sounds thrilling, right? It is, but it’s also just another completely normal day in the universe—and you can see it (indirectly) for yourself. Join the Explainers to see how you can build a cloud chamber of your very own.