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[DarrenTR1970]

I think the miniature footage of the rocket was recycled from Doctor Who, but I'm not sure from where.

I looked through my book to see if there was any mention of reusing footage from Dr. Who buy couldn't find any.

However, the production crew did reuse a lot of costumes and props from Dr. Who as well as several other BBC productions including historical dramas for some of the costumes/uniforms that the cast wore.

 

[Marc]

Also, they're reusing the space pod from "Time Squad,"

Which would mean it got got 3 appearances the third being in Countdown.

 

[JD]

Why not? It's a power plant like any other. The parts of it inhabited by humans aren't exposed to radiation or radioactive material, since power plant designers are not stupid and obviously would design the plants to keep the human-occupied areas well away from those things. Nuclear power is the second-safest energy source in the world, on a par with wind and solar. As the following chart shows, the death rate from coal power plants is literally a thousand times higher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#/media/File:Energy_Production_Death_Rates_per_TWh.png

My surprise applies to any power plant, not just a nuclear one, I had just always assumed that any power plant would only let in people who absolutely needed to be there for the place to run, and anybody else wouldn't be allowed anywhere near it at all.

People are very bad at risk assessment. They fear new, unfamiliar things that aren't really that dangerous, while being blase about everyday things that kill people all the time, like traffic accidents. People's historic fear of nuclear power comes more from that unfamiliarity than from any real threat. Yes, on those very rare cases when a nuclear plant suffers a catastrophic failure, it can be very dangerous, but that's why they're carefully designed to minimize the risk, so on a day-to-day level they're much safer than a coal power plant.

Honestly, I'd probably be more shocked by people filming at an active coal power plant than a nuclear one. "Hey everybody, let's go get lung cancer!"

As far as health and safety are concerned, TV and film productions have shot in far more dangerous places. There was an episode of The Middleman where they shot in a decaying, abandoned factory full of asbestos, and the cast and crew were advised not to touch anything.

Yikes, I was not aware of that. No thank you.

 

[Set Harth]

There was an episode of The Middleman where they shot in a decaying, abandoned factory full of asbestos, and the cast and crew were advised not to touch anything.

Unfortunately just being there and breathing the air would be the problem.

 

[Christopher]

My surprise applies to any power plant, not just a nuclear one, I had just always assumed that any power plant would only let in people who absolutely needed to be there for the place to run, and anybody else wouldn't be allowed anywhere near it at all.

A power plant is a big place. Most of the shooting was just in corridors and such. Although I have seen power plant control rooms used as filming locations.

I don't think power plants necessarily need to be active 24/7. There are multiple power plants on the grid, and occasionally one goes down for maintenance or whatever and the other plants take the load.

 

[JD]

I guess that makes sense, and it's not as bad if it was just corridors and things like that. I've never seen the episode, so I was picturing them running around doing big shootouts and action scenes in the middle of all the generators.