From 2014, Bob Simon's visit to the site of the decades-old Soviet nuclear disaster. Simon's 2014 report on the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan, where he found toxic ghost towns frozen in time. And also from 2014, Lesley Stahl's report examining the handling of a coal ash waste spill in North Carolina.
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 Chernobyl
13:15 Fukushima - Three Years After the Disaster
27:39 The Spill At Dan River