Fukushima Disaster Documentary: Is Nuclear Power Safe?Documentary covering Fukushima, Chernobyl, and alternative nuclear power generation
including Thorium. BBC Horizon.
Broadcast 14 september 2011
Length 57 minutes 25 seconds Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release
of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power
is safe.
He begins in Japan, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people
who have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. He travels to an abandoned village
just outside the zone to witness a nuclear clean-up operation.
Jim draws on the latest scientific findings from Japan and from the previous explosion
at Chernobyl to understand how dangerous the release of radiation is likely to be
and what that means for our trust in nuclear power.