Picks and Pans Review: The Bomb Factories

By Jeff Jarvis

UPDATED 04/27/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 04/27/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (Fri., April 24, 10 p.m. ET)

B+

After Silkwood, we know that the nuclear business can be a dirty one. Now we learn that making nuclear bombs can be even dirtier. In a fine Closeup, Richard Threlkeld tells about factory floors with uranium dust a quarter inch thick, about leaking radioactive poisons and about efforts to cover up this "national disgrace."