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Summary:

Low-carbon energy solution, or a ticking time bomb? When the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant went into meltdown following an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the world started to question the safety of nuclear power. In Fukushima - Is Nuclear Power Safe? (Horizon) we ask if such distrust is justified? Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, is convinced of the theoretical value of nuclear power. In Fukushima - Is Nuclear Power Safe? (Horizon), he travels to the most important sites in nuclear safety - Fukushima, Chernobyl and new reactors in Finland - to see if nuclear power can ever work as well in practice, when exposed to politics and economics, as it does on paper. Fukushima - Is Nuclear Power Safe? (Horizon) is a BBC science documentary which looks at just how safe our nuclear power resources really are.

Contributors:

Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- , narrator

Gillings, Annabel , producer

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

This edition in English.

Related Series:

Horizon; series 48, episode 6

Subjects:

Nuclear energy — Safety measures

Nuclear industry — Accidents — Japan — Fukushima

Nuclear power plants — Accidents — Japan — Fukushima

Nuclear power plants

Nuclear reactor accidents — Japan — Fukushima

Nuclear reactors

Nuclear energy

Nuclear industry — Accidents

Nuclear industry

Nuclear power plants — Accidents

Nuclear reactor accidents

Japan

Genres:

Documentary television programs

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 24, 2013).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (57 min)).

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

867771381

Other Control Numbers:

2106718 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP2106718/avon