10,000 Year Test, The
- Synopsis
- Scientists working in the Nevada desert attempt to predict the future for the next 10,000 years. The USA has chosen to bury all of its most lethal high-level radioactive waste under Yucca Mountain there, if it can be proved that the waste would cause no more than 1000 deaths over 10,000 years. This depends on working out the probability of everything that could happen to the mountain and the surrounding population. Possible indicators are desert pack rats, and rocks that ‘eat’ radioactivity.
- Series
- Horizon, Series
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 150 min.
- Year of production
- 1990
- Availability
- Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 from 5/3/99.
- Subjects
- Engineering; Physics
- Keywords
- radioactive decay
Credits
- Producer
- Bettina Lerner
- Writer
- Bettina Lerner
- Contributor
- Robin Brightwell
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Availability
- Sale
- Year
- 2013
- Type
- Film
- Format
- Standard 8
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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