25 Jun 2011
Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs
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Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
Everybody's guilty. Nobody's guilty. As in war.
A powerful documentary that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that immediately followed. A powerful documentary - shot from March 11th, 2011 through March 2015 - that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
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