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Graham Phillips travels to the USA for a glimpse of the next, generation four, nuclear reactors and investigates what makes them intrinsically safer, and Anja Taylor debunks the myths about acne.NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR POWEROnly two years ago, nuclear power was a key player in providing energy for our future. In a carbon-wary world, nuclear stood as a proven and relatively green source of energy. But everything went wrong for the technology on 11 March 2011 when a massive earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear meltdown in Japan, rekindling memories of the Chernobyl nuclear incident. Could the next generation of plants restore our faith in nuclear power? Graham Phillips travels to the USA for a glimpse of the next, generation four, nuclear reactors and investigates what makes them intrinsically safer.TEENAGE ACNEPimples and Acne - those little red bumps always rear their ugly heads at the worst possible time, making you feel miserable and self-conscious. Pimples are part of teenage life and about as dreaded and unavoidable as exams. Practically everyone (85% of Australians), at some time or another, has had an encounter with acne. But do you really know what's behind this party wrecking culprit? Was it the chocolate you ate last night or the stressful week you had? Is it because you don't wash your face enough? Or wear makeup? Anja Taylor debunks the myths about acne and reveals what works to treat acne and what doesn't.HIGGS BOSONOn 4th July 2012 it was announced that the world's most-wanted particle - the Higgs boson - had been discovered. The particle is the fundamental ingredient of the Higgs field, which is supposed to give mass to everything known in the universe. Derek Muller visits the physicists at CERN in Switzerland where they are busily probing this curious new particle in an attempt to reveal its properties. With more data, they hope soon to know what they've found. Of course, if it's not the Higgs, then what is it?POKIE PROBABILITYPoker machines are mathematically programmed to make money - but for whom? Mathematician Simon Pampena crunches the numbers on the pokies to work out the chances of winning |
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Broadcast 2012-10-11 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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University of California, Berkeley.
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Acne -- Treatment.
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Higgs bosons.
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Nuclear reactors -- Testing.
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Slot machines.
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California -- Berkeley.
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Streaming video
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Phillips, Graham, host
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Abbott, Derek, contributor
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Bendavid, Josh, contributor
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Brook, Barry, contributor
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Flannery, Tim, contributor
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Gross, E (Eilam), contributor
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Incandela, Joe, contributor
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Laufer, Mike, contributor
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Morley, Anthony, contributor
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Pampena, Simon, contributor
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Peterson, Per, contributor
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See, Joann, contributor
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