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Horizon

Season 16 · Episode 23

Uranium Goes Critical

0.01h 0mDecember 3, 1979

This Horizon episode is all about Uranium; its history, the use of uranium for nuclear energy, the dangers of uranium, and the scarcity of the mineral.

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