Horizon · SEASON 24
After Chernobyl - Closer to Home
Episode 15 · 1987-04-13

- Documentary
Episode overview
Report on the safety of UK nuclear power stations, following the accident at Chernobyl in the USSR in 1986. The programme focuses on the nuclear installation at Hartlepool on Teeside, which has the smallest evacuation zone in the western world.
60 minutes
Season 24 episodes
1. The Twenty-Five Hour Clock1987-01-05
2. The Search for the Disappeared1987-01-12
3. The Blind Watchmaker1987-01-19
4. Riding the Stack1987-01-26
5. Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children1987-02-02
6. Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving1987-02-09
7. Energy from Outer Space1987-02-16
8. The Return of the Osprey1987-02-23
9. Can AIDS Be Stopped?1987-03-02
10. Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome1987-03-09
11. To Engineer Is Human1987-03-16
12. The Magma Chamber1987-03-23
13. Broken Images1987-03-30
14. Trial Babies1987-04-06
15. After Chernobyl - Closer to Home1987-04-13
16. Making Sex Pay1987-05-11
17. The Anthropic Principle1987-05-18
19. Aircrash: The Burning Issue1987-06-01
20. The Riddle of the Joints1987-06-08
21. To Catch a Falling Star1987-05-15
22. In the Light of New Information1987-06-22
23. Janice's Choice1987-06-29