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Quake shakes faith in nuclear power (part two)

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Arguments abound over whether it was a good idea to build nuclear power plants in a seismic area, over the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima complex, and over the viability of atomic energy in the West.

DEBATE

From Vienna - Nuclear physicist Robert KELLEY, formerly of US Department of Energy Radiological Response Programs.

From Bridgewater, England - anti-nuclear activist Nikki CLARKE of Stop Hinkley 3

Bruno COMBY, President of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy

Economics professor Patrice GEOFFRON of the Geopolitics Center for Energy and Raw Materials

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Produced by Perrine Desplats, Bilal Tarabey, Anelise Borges, Louise McWatt

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