BBC Horizon Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe? ¦ 720p [4/4]

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.

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[Lingerminator]

When science seems inhumane, be sure money is the culprit, with politics hot on its heels. Science is a perspective with humanity and it survival as its motive. When survival of the fittest is not prominent then we have room to be distracted and stupid. Science is the way to survive with this life style.

[Jerkix]

2:28

I can imagine net nerds screaming with glee!

[underage4page]

Very informative! thanks for posting

[RJL738]

Yes it's true humans have an opinion in almost all ways when a new concept gets created by science. The cultural stories that are made are just comical when ever something contraversial is debated. The one thing to take away from this is that almost anything can be misused or even used for a benifit so saying something can be a weapon when people are good at making weapons anyway is not enough. Thank you for this.

[youwillBsorry]

Bought and paid for by the nuke industry

[mashaykt]

@LeoR86 what i meant was that science can lose humanity when it goes into extremes, and that is scary. comparing to much safer alternatives, nuclear power is an extreme choice, for me at least .

[LeoR86]

@mashaykt really? you're such a hypocrite.. It is because of science that human life expectancy doubled in the last 60 years, all those vaccines, and medicines. Yes there have been cases where people have used science knowledge to do bad things when it falls in the wrong hands.

[TransparentWorlds]

oh my god. what a dumb question after a tripple meltdown in one of the biggest nuclear plants on earth (Facepalm)

[mashaykt]

@10mintwo Congratulations on ever so clearly outshining the two most breathtakingly idiotic comments before you to win the prize of "most meaningless comment" award.

[10mintwo]

@mashaykt Congratulations on just ever so slightly edging out the only other commenter before you to win the prize of "most breathtakingly idiotic thing I've read this week" award. Well done you!