Weeks after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown, this BBC Horizon report turns to a British nuclear plant just down the coast from ordinary homes: Hartlepool Power Station. Local residents, filmed at public meetings and in their own kitchens, describe their fear of living near a reactor after watching Soviet officials struggle to contain a catastrophe an ocean away, and press plant officials on whether Britain's emergency evacuation plans could actually cope with a similar accident. Engineers and scientists walk through how Hartlepool's Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor differs from Chernobyl's RBMK design, explaining the containment structures and cooling systems meant to prevent a repeat disaster, while critics and independent experts question how much of that reassurance is real engineering and how much is public relations. Archival news footage of the Chernobyl aftermath is intercut with plant tours and interviews recorded on site at Hartlepool. The film stays focused on one plain question hanging over Britain's nuclear program in 1986: if it happened there, could it happen here?