Meltdown

Overview

March 11, 2011. Japan is hit with the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded. But the real legacy of this disaster is the ensuing nuclear accident - power plant engineers try, and fail, to avert catastrophe. This is the story of a chain of errors that led to the nightmare of nuclear meltdown. The film recreates the sequence of events inside the Fukushima control room and plant, to help determine what happened and why.

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