Now contending with multiple damaged reactors, engineers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant hatch a series of increasingly desperate plans to prevent a total meltdown. But several explosions and the loss of vital cooling pumps bring the entire plant to the brink of chaos. As the crisis worsens, it becomes clear that the very future of Japan is at stake.
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Sep 2023
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
In 2011, Japan was hit by the worst earthquake in the country’s history. Enormous tremors caused devastation all throughout Japan, and the tsunami that followed wreaked further havoc. But the damage didn’t end there. 200 km north of Tokyo, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plan ... Show More
54m 40s
Jun 2024
Episode 353 - Chernobyl: The Power Station That Ended a Nation
<p>The world’s most infamous nuclear disaster officially killed just thirty-one people, but in reality it’s death toll is incalculable. Raining radioactive debris over a city, and melting the skin off the on-site workers, the explosion and subsequent meltdown at Chernobyl reactor ... Show More
1h 14m
Mar 2020
Podcast Entre-Deux spécial Fukushima
A l’occasion du neuvième anniversaire de la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima, nous revenons sur cette journée du 11 mars 2011, date à laquelle un puissant tremblement de terre a secoué l’Est de l’archipel nippon, suivi d’un tsunami puis de l’accident nucléaire, classé 7 sur l’é ... Show More
52m 39s
Jan 2024
The Manhattan Project | Chain Reaction | 1
<p>In December 1938, a team of German physicists achieved an astonishing scientific breakthrough: they split the nucleus of a uranium atom. In the United States, news of the discovery sparked fear in the scientific community. Atomic fission could power a devastating new weapon, a ... Show More
40m 4s