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Audio-visual
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
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