Nuclear Plant
National Geographic: Man-Made · Season 2 · Episode 28
A family demolition team from Phoenix, Maryland descends on site of the Sellafield Nuclear plant to take down four outdated nuclear cooling towers. The demolition team plans on making history by being the first to successfully use explosives on an active nuclear site in the United Kingdom. The team has ten days to load and rig 4400 dynamite charges in the towers, one of which is only 40m away from a nuclear fuel processing plant. The team is set to make history, but are worried about the fallout.
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2
Episode
28
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60 min
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A family demolition team from Phoenix, Maryland descends on site of the Sellafield Nuclear plant to take down four outdated nuclear cooling towers. The demolition team plans on making history by being the first to successfully use explosives on an active nuclear site in the United Kingdom. The team has ten days to load and rig 4400 dynamite charges in the towers, one of which is only 40m away from a nuclear fuel processing plant. The team is set to make history, but are worried about the fallout.
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