In 'Nuclear,' a vital and grounded movie that demands to be seen, Oliver Stone argues that the perceived dangers of nuclear energy are dwarfed by the impending catastrophe of climate change. Read our review here:
makes the vital and historical case that nuclear power has been the victim of a perception/reality conundrum, one that is now in the process of being overturned. The perception is that nuclear power is dangerous: too dangerous to be an essential component of providing our energy needs. The reality, argues Stone, is that nuclear power is clean, abundant, and safe.
The case for nuclear energy, as the force that could lead us out of our calamitous addiction to fossil fuels, has been made in a movie before.
It wasn’t always that way. In the 1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower planned to use nuclear power to produce massive amounts of electricity, and he jubilantly shared his vision with the United Nations in 1953. Eisenhower launched the Atoms for Peace program and ordered the visionary U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover, who had first developed the idea of nuclear propulsion for submarines, to get started on a nuclear power plant for land.
Yet that’s not the perception. The perception is that nuclear energy is dangerous because uranium, the material at its core , is inherently dangerous. If you want to talk about strange bedfellows, consider this: The U.S. oil companies, in the ’60s and ’70s, became de facto partners of the anti-nuclear movement, allying themselves with “tree huggers” in order to help kill the key energy source that could compete with fossil fuels.
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