Inside Japan's Nuclear MeltdownEpisode of August 5, 2014

This is an unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on 11 March, 2011. The program includes eye-witness accounts from key executives and workers in the drama, including those employees struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant's pitch-black buildings. The story also profiles the Japanese soldiers and fire-fighters drafted to cool the reactors, as well as the local families exposed to the radioactive plume. (From the US) (Documentary) (Rpt) CC

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown was broadcast on SBS ONE at Tuesday 5 August 2014, 15:00.