Physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores the history of the nuclear facility near the village of Seascale in Cumbria, investigating Britain's attempts - past, present and future - to harness the power of the atom. He examines the ways waste and spent fuel rods have been stored there over the past 70 years and looks at the latest attempts to try to clean some of it up, from storage in vast open-air ponds to encasing pieces of old reactors in concrete blocks
The story of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico during the Second World War. The film examines the personalities of the men and women who created the first nuclear weapon, using first-hand accounts and rare archive interviews to look at their triumphs, failures and world-changing accomplishments
Race to build the bomb now bbc4The story of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico during the Second World War. The film examines the personalities of the men and women who created the first