Horizon
Season 49 Episode 6 - Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
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.
Episodes in Season 49
Do You See What I See?
60 min
Seeing Stars
60 min
The Nine Months That Made You
60 min
The Core
60 min
Are You Good or Evil?
60 min
Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
60 min
Playing God
60 min
The Truth About Exercise
60 min
Solar Storms: The Threat to Planet Earth
60 min
Out of Control?
60 min
Global Weirding
60 min
The Truth about Fat
60 min
Defeating Cancer
60 min
