NOVA: Nuclear Meltdown Disaster

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Wide shot of damaged reactor, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Moving through a high radiation corridor, Fukushima Daiichi.

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Reviewing the radiation readings.

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Worker at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Lake Barrett overseeing operations.

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station, also called “Fukushima II."

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"Nuclear Meltdown Disaster" - Four years after one of history’s worst nuclear accidents, NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and its ongoing aftermath, told by the brave workers who stayed behind as an earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant.

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Nuclear Meltdown Disaster Preview

"Go inside the Fukushima power plants for the minute-by-minute story of what went wrong. Airing July 29