Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
Reconstructs the nine harrowing days following the disaster in forensic, real-time detail, from the control-room engineers fighting to prevent a total meltdown, to the political leaders confronting the unthinkable, to ordinary citizens caught in the fallout.
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“It was like going to war,” says one of the Japanese engineers who risked everything to avert another Chernobyl-level disaster, or worse, in the wake of a devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami that disabled the Fukushima nuclear power plant. A harrowing documentary relives the nine days that followed, during which the power plant’s workers scrambled amid radioactive fallout and hydrogen explosions to avert a catastrophic total meltdown.
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