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Documentaries to Watch for Earth Day
From the truth about plastic recycling, to the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change, these documentaries are essential Earth Day viewing — and they're all available to stream online now.
April 21, 2023
Watch a Decade of Documentaries on Climate Change & Other Environmental Threats
Ahead of FRONTLINE’s three-part series ‘The Power of Big Oil,’ revisit our reporting on how we reached this moment.
April 12, 2022
Four Years After Fukushima, Japan Makes a Return to Nuclear Power
A reactor at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant is the first to be brought back online since Japan took the unprecedented step of mothballing all 48 of its reactors in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
August 11, 2015
First Post-Fukushima Safety Rules Approved by NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission moved to adopt new safety regulations, eight months after the NRC's Fukushima task force issued its recommendations, and almost a year after the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
March 2, 2012
NRC Report: Nuclear Power Plants More Vulnerable to Earthquakes Than Previously Thought
The report lays out a plan for "seismic stress tests" over the next four years for plants in the central and eastern parts of the country.
February 2, 2012
Live Chat 1 p.m. ET: Nuclear Energy In The Shadow of Fukushima
Read the full transcript of our "Nuclear Aftershocks" chat with correspondent Miles O'Brien, producer Jon Palfreman and guest questioner Spencer Reiss from Wired.
January 18, 2012
Did Fukushima Quash the Global "Nuclear Renaissance"?
Where five key countries stand on the controversial issue of nuclear power.
January 17, 2012
Gregory Jaczko: What the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Can Learn From Fukushima
In the wake of the disasater at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Gregory Jaczko says the U.S. has "to go forward always with that expectation that an accident can happen, and we have to do the right things to prevent it."
January 17, 2012
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