Uranium Goes Critical
The fuel that drives every nuclear power station in the world is running out. Uranium, once described as limitless, may not last to the end of the century. Unless something can be done the nuclear industry will die with it.
This is the story of a curious, very heavy metal once thought to be useless - from the first nuclear reactor in a squash court in Chicago to environmental battlefields in the Orkneys.
In Canada, the US and Australia, concern about nuclear weapons and about radiation may hasten the uranium age to its close. But the nuclear industry has a trump card-a plan to extend uranium supplies well into the next century and beyond.
Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Film editor GRAHAM WALKER Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by Richard REISZ