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See how uranium has shaped the past and will change the future.
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Follow Dr. Derek Muller as he explores the controversial element — uranium.
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Learn how one of Earth's most controversial elements has revolutionized society.
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Dr. Derek Muller visits a radon spa in the Czech Republic to take a radioactive bath.
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Learn about the power of uranium to spontaneously change its atomic structure.
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Travel into the radioactive basement of Pripyat Hospital in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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See how uranium makes weapons that could end all life on Earth possible.
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Uranium was forged in the explosion of a star some six billion years ago.