Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets
Documentary
9/10
|US
|en
|89 min
Release Date: 2013-06-06
Overview - Africa's development is being held back by poor infrastructure and undersized power plants. Countries like Uganda can only produce only 1/4 of the energy needed, leading to daily power cuts with disastrous economic impacts. It's a golden opportunity for nuclear giants who lobby aggressively for more power plants in Africa. But how safe are these new reactors? And what do they mean for the locals?
