Options for tackling nuclear crisis at Fukushima

Name: Options for tackling nuclear crisis at Fukushima
Uploaded: 2011-03-16T19:41:56.000Z
Description: The BBC's Science Correspondent David Shukman looks at the possible options for bringing the nuclear disaster in Japan under control.

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The American energy secretary has said the crisis at Fukushima appears to be more serious than the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979.

So what are the options for bringing the disaster under control?

Our science correspondent David Shukman has this assessment.

Asia-Pacific

16 March 2011