The Nuclear Option

00:00:02 NARRATOR: In Japan, the bright lights never stop burning.

00:02:43 It rolled over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant...

00:05:52 O'BRIEN: The owner of Fukushima,

00:08:17 the relentless demand for more energy

00:10:37 O'BRIEN: fear of atomic bombs, radiation, and concerns about

00:13:00 I feel there's a bit

00:15:12 their containment structures, but it is likely

00:17:06 if there's a lot of uranium there, how much is left.

00:19:18 BUESSELER: Tritium was not released

00:21:18 and cables around the nuclear reactor buildings.

00:23:27 that I was exposed to?"

00:25:46 still have a serious vulnerability...

00:28:07 Four of these AP1000s

00:29:55 the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems.

00:32:18 Experimental Breeder Reactor Number Two.

00:34:39 As a result, the chain reaction is reduced,

00:37:11 of the dark chamber of horrors into the light.

00:39:22 permanently uninhabitable,

00:41:46 I'm quite excited about where we're at today.

00:44:09 MYHRVOLD: With the TerraPower reactor,

00:46:22 and we're going to keep making that crazy bet.

00:48:24 in the case of even more extreme accident scenarios.

00:50:37 they're able to shut themselves down.

00:52:52 for future generations.