Nuclear safety: the great lie

While the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents have raised the alarm about nuclear safety, the security of the facilities, classified as a defense secret, is still shrouded in a thick mystery. However, beyond the vulnerability of the sites highlighted by the operations of environmental activists, the investigation into the Brussels attacks of March 2016 revealed that Belgium's nuclear facilities were indeed a potential target for terrorists in search of weapons of mass destruction. From suicide bombings and the crash of an airliner into a reactor to cyber attacks, drones, acts of sabotage and the homemade manufacture of dirty bombs - a mixture of explosives and radioactive materials - the threats, acknowledged by experts, are real. So how are our facilities protected against these multiple risks, and how is the international community organized to secure materials and prevent trafficking?

From the USA to Germany, via France and Belgium, this investigation reveals the abysmal shortcomings of nuclear site protection systems, most of which were designed before the attacks of September 11, 2001. Interviewing experts, politicians and Greenpeace activists, the film also shows how the nuclear industry, now often loss-making and over-indebted, struggles to implement effective - and inevitably costly - measures in the face of terrorist risk. We discover that no international standards are imposed on nuclear-weapon states, particularly when it comes to securing the most dangerous materials, despite the attempts of Barack Obama, initiator of the World Summit on Nuclear Security... The silence that surrounds this threat in the name of confidentiality in the face of a potential enemy also deprives civil society of the legitimate debate on its security, when decisions to guarantee it are a political matter. A chilling investigation into one of the world's best-kept secrets.