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Images
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Week 1
Figure 1 courtesy of TopoMetrix Corporation
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Week 2
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Figure 12 © Google Maps
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Figure 15 © Courtesy of US Department of Energy/Science Photo Library
Figure 16 (a): The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), (b): courtesy of Sellafield Ltd
Figure 17 © courtesy of Will & Deni Mcintyre/Science Photo Library
Figure 18 © Maxian/iStockPhoto.com
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Week 3
Figure 1 © The Open University
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Figure 4 © Google Maps
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Week 4
Figure 1 © Charly Triballeau/Stringer/Getty Images
Figure 2 courtesy BBC News, Source: IEA (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30919045)
Figure 5 © ChrisSteer/iStockPhoto.com
Figure 7 © Richard Baker in Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HinkleyPointCoast.jpg, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Figure 8 Richard Baker in Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hinkley_Point_Nuclear_Power_Station.jpg?uselang=en-gb, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Figure 9 © courtesy of EDF Energy
Figure 10 © courtesy of NASA/SDO/GSFC
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Audio-visual
Week 1
1.2.1 Radioactivity video Chemistry - a volatile history, S01 E03 9pm, 4 February 2010 © BBC
1.2.6 Myths of radiation video © courtesy Museum of Quackery, May 2007
1.3.6 The early days of fission © The Open University and its licensors
Week 2
2.1.2 Human power station video Bang Goes the Theory Christmas Special 3 December 2009 © BBC
2.1.5 Running the National Grid Bang Goes the Theory, Series 8 Energy (2014) © BBC
2.2.2 Inside a nuclear reactor video Bang Goes the Theory Series 5.10.11© BBC
2.3 Waste produced by nuclear power © The Open University and its licensors
2.3.3 Decommissioning at Dounreay Bang Goes the Theory Series 5 Episode 8 (2011) © BBC
2.3.6 Solution: transmutation video Horizon - Is Nuclear Power Safe (2011) © BBC
2.3.8 Case study: Yucca Mountain © The Open University
Week 3
3.1 Atomic Men various clips Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster 08 October 2007 © BBC
3.1.2 Accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl © The Open University and its licensors
3.2.2 Hydrogen explosions demonstrations various clips © BBC
3.2.3 Inside the Daiichi power plant video Horizon: Is Nuclear Power Safe, 14 September 2011 © BBC
3.2.5 Clean-up if Iitae video Horizon: Fukushima Is Nuclear Power Safe 2011 © BBC
3.3 Fukushima - water issues audio BBC Radio 4 news, 5 September 2013 © BBC
3.3.2 Fukashima - health effects three years later video Horizon: Fucuskina Is Nuclear Power Safe, episode 6, 2011 © BBC
3.3.4 Chernobyl today: exclusion zone © The Open University
3.3.5 Chernobyl today - health effects video Horizon: Fukushima Is Nuclear Power Safe, episode 6, 2011 © BBC
Week 4
4.1.3 Energy gap video Bang Goes the Theory, series 8, 2011 © BBC
4.1.6 Nuclear waste audio BBC Inside Science Radio 4 programme 8, 2013 © BBC
4.2 Thorium - nuclear fuel of the future? video Thorium backed as a 'future fuel', BBC News 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24638816 © BBC
4.2.7 The National Ignition Facility video Human Universe: A Place in Space and Time, 28 October 2014 © BBC
4.3 Nuclear energy debate video © Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2015
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