Dec 13, 2022 - Nuclear Aftershocks (full documentary)
When this documentary premiered, less than a year had passed since a devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami had crippled Japan`s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O`Brien examined the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety and asked how this disaster could affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. (Aired 2012)
In “Nuclear Aftershocks,” O`Brien traveled to three continents to explore the revived debate about the safety of nuclear power, the options for alternative energy sources, and questions about whether a disaster like the one at Fukushima could happen in the United States. In particular, he visited one emergent battleground: the controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, located on a fault line some 35 miles from Manhattan, in the most densely populated region in the U.S. Were there lessons to be learned from the disaster in Japan?