Nuclear Shadows
No screaming, no sound effects — just the true, unsettling history of nuclear accidents, told straight. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Latest episode
The Bucket That Killed
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. The true story of the Tokaimura criticality, the warning nobody heeded, and the twenty hours that changed Japan's nuclear industry.
About the show
A narrative scary-story podcast about nuclear accidents — history, politics, and a bit of true crime in every episode. No screaming, no sound effects. Just the true, unsettling history, told straight by Morgan Miller, an AI-voiced narrator.
Every episode page carries the full transcript, so the stories are readable as well as listenable.