Through interviews with physicists, engineers and laborers, this video examines the evolution of nuclear power from the nuclear tests of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge during World War II, to the proliferation of nuclear power plants across the United States. Discusses the current problems of managing nuclear waste, and the dangers of potential nuclear accidents.
"Through interviews with physicists, engineers and laborers, this video examines the evolution of nuclear power from the nuclear tests of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge during World War II, to the proliferation of nuclear power plants across the United States. Discusses the current problems of managing nuclear waste, and the dangers of potential nuclear accidents."@en
"Explores the history of the nuclear age, as seen in retrospect by the scientists and workers who built and manned the Manhattan Project, the political context in which the atomic bomb was invented and justified, the beginnings of the nuclear power industry, and the aftermath issue of nuclear waste and its dangers."@en
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