Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a theoretically defunct site like where nuclear Hanford doesn't occur anymore, but it represents three super-fund sites that need to be cleaned up because of the amount of nuclear waste. What has been a really good outcome of [writing this book] is this being in the news again, people are starting to understand what a threat the amount of nuclear waste that's already been created can be to the public at large, because nuclear waste is volatile. Kay Smith-Blum , a former fashionista and Seattle School Board President, spends her days debunking the tropes of the mid-20th-century history. An odd dream and the recent upheaval over leaking radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear site compelled her to write, TANGLES, named 2024 Book of the Year by the Literary Global Book Awards and Best Debut Fiction by the American Writing Awards 2024.

You can listen to Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph is an episode from First Online With Fran by Frances McGarry.

This episode is 0:33:11 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2025.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from First Online With Fran when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.