Nuclear Nightmares

Programmes

• Moon Machines
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The Underwater Dream Machine
• Nuclear Nightmares
• Hitler's Sunken Secret
• Global Dimming
• Project Poltergeist
• Magnetic Flip
• The Secret of El Dorado
• Rocket Men of Mission 105
• The Day the Oceans Boiled
• Hunt for the Death Star
• The Great Dog Race
• Einstein's Biggest Blunder

First transmitted on BBC2 / Horizon, July 2006

Few things evoke more fear than radiation. But are our nuclear nightmares based on reality?

For twenty years scientists have been studying the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for people and wildlife. What they have found contradicts many common beliefs about the effects of radiation. As this film reveals, leading scientists are now questioning the assumptions that have for decades governed their thinking about the dangers of radiation.