"Environmental journalist Fred Pearce travels the globe to investigate our complicated seven-decade long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. While concern about climate change has led some environmentalists to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar, others have expressed a renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative source of carbon-neutral energy. But can humanity handle...

An expose of the 1961 nuclear reactor explosion in Idaho challenges official records that blame the accident on a dramatic love triangle involving two victims, in an account that presents evidence citing poor safety regulations.