Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Sam Smidt and Gemma Warriner
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Audio-visual
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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