Atomic Ed and the Black Hole is a documentary released in 2001 by filmmaker, Ellen Spiro.

[1] The documentary was made for HBO's Cinemax Reel Life Series.

Ed Grothus (“Atomic Ed”) is a machinist-turned-atomic junk collector who more than 30 years ago quit his job of making atomic bombs and began collecting non-radioactive nuclear waste discarded from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Atomic Ed is the proprietor of “The Black Hole”, a second-hand shop and, next door, curator of the unofficial museum of the nuclear age.

His collection reveals and preserves the history of government waste that was literally thrown in a trash heap.