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Is nuclear energy the way to go?

Since its inception, critics of nuclear power have concentrated on the industry's lamentable safety record, its growing and deadly radiological legacy for future generations and its links to military development and maintenance of nuclear weapons.

Six months on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Dave Handley assesses the mood in Japan.

The true extent of the destruction that followed the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is only just being seen. But it is clear that many thousands of people have lost their lives and billions of pounds worth of damage has been done.