Aftermath: Population Zero

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But without the help of a human hand,

it rings for the last time.

Human time and human

history have stopped.

But life on Earth continues.

Houses and apartments are still

inhabited by increasingly hungry pets.

It's been three days

since anyone has fed them,

so they devour anything they can find.

In the US, tens of millions of dogs

were trapped when their owners vanished.

Now, they either have to break

out of their homes or die.

With the failure of power

plants around the globe,

pets inherit a dark world.

At nuclear power plants

emergency diesel

generators started working

as soon as the electricity failed.

But without power, this

building, and hundreds like it,

will soon cause an

unprecedented disaster.

This is the spent

fuel handling building,

where radioactive fuel

is stored in cooling pools

after it's used to generate power.

The pool is 30 feet deep and filled

with 400 tons of spent nuclear fuel,

the result of atoms splitting

to create nuclear energy.

And split atoms keep

releasing heat and radiation.

The spent fuel is

contained in zircaloy tubes.

And they're dangerous.

If they're not kept under water,

they'll quickly heat up to 1000 degrees.

They need to be kept in

flowing, refrigerated water

for years before they cool off.

Nuclear storage sites can

be found all over the world.

There are 75 in the US alone.

The spent fuel is safe as

long as the generators stay on

and keep the water cool.

But if someone doesn't refill them,

they'll grind to a stop.

And this time, no one's coming.

Pets are now learning

to live off the land.

For some, life was once

rich with food, water.

But now, scrounging through

garbage is what provides meals.

As for water, things have

changed down by the river.

Pumps at the sewage treatment plants

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