{"id":500241,"date":"2022-10-12T02:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-nuclear-review-oliver-stone-makes-a-powerful-case-for-nuclear-power\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T02:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:43:19","slug":"watch-nuclear-review-oliver-stone-makes-a-powerful-case-for-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nuclear-review-oliver-stone-makes-a-powerful-case-for-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Nuclear&#8217; Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Powerful Case for Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5af673e7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5af673e7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nuclear-review-oliver-stone-makes-a-powerful-case-for-nuclear-power\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Nuclear_Review_Oliver_Stone_Makes_a_Powerful_Case_for_Nuclear_Power%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Nuclear&#8217; Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Powerful Case for Nuclear Power&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nuclear-review-oliver-stone-makes-a-powerful-case-for-nuclear-power\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Nuclear_Review_Oliver_Stone_Makes_a_Powerful_Case_for_Nuclear_Power%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Nuclear&#8217; Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Powerful Case for Nuclear Power&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Nuclear_Review_Oliver_Stone_Makes_a_Powerful_Case_for_Nuclear_Power%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Nuclear&#8217; Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Powerful Case for Nuclear Power&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Nuclear_Review_Oliver_Stone_Makes_a_Powerful_Case_for_Nuclear_Power%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Nuclear&#8217; Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Powerful Case for Nuclear Power&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cNuclear,\u201d his intensely compelling, must-see documentary, Oliver Stone 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, and that the ominous fact of our energy crisis \u2014\u00a0the looming catastrophe of climate change, the hopeful but stubbornly incremental growth of renewables like wind and solar \u2014 is too urgent for nuclear power <em>not<\/em> to be an essential component of providing our energy needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Those are the two sides of the debate, and they\u2019ve been entrenched for so long that it\u2019s hard, at a glance, to see much possibility for change. But that\u2019s where a documentary like \u201cNuclear\u201d comes in. I think the movie, viewed with open eyes, could influence people\u2019s ideas on the nuclear-power issue the way that \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d moved the needle on climate change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For decades, there has been a primal fear of all things associated with the word <em>nuclear<\/em>. The protest movements against nuclear power that took root in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s lumped all of \u201cnuclear\u201d into one bucket: nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It was all\u2026<em>bad<\/em>. That\u2019s why leftist-activist types, in the No Nukes era, made a cult fetish of mispronouncing the word \u201cnuclear\u201d as \u201cnuke-ular.\u201d They were saying, in essence: the possibility of being <em>nuked<\/em> is inherent in this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. Therefore it must be treated as toxic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If you argue against this idea, as Stone does, then those who believe it will repeat the following as if it were a self-evident mantra: \u201cSafe? You\u2019re crazy. Six words: Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima. Done.\u201d The fear of nuclear disaster is a primal fear that is seen, by the anti-nuclear ideology, as a transcendent deal-breaker. There\u2019s no possibility of having a rational dialogue about it, because the pro-nuclear position is treated, by the anti-nuclear position, as if it were, in effect, the pro-nuclear-<em>disaster<\/em> position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What few will say out loud is that the fear of nuclear disaster has, for decades, been elevated into a mythology. No one, for instance, died in the Three Mile Island accident (but the coincidental release of the 1979 meltdown disaster movie \u201cThe China Syndrome\u201d helped lock in the perception that people did die). There is risk inherent in everything, but the new generation of nuclear-power reactors have built-in structural safeguards that are leaps and bounds beyond those that were in place at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And for anyone tempted to write off that argument as an extreme form of wish-fulfillment, Stone invites you to check out the forces who h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to agree with it. Namely: huge sectors of the rest of the world. Once you get outside the United States, nuclear power has a very different image. It has been used, for decades, to power the economy of a Euro-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist nation as enlightened as France, which now gets 70 percent of its energy from nuclear. (Each French citizen, on average, produces one-third of the carbon emissions of each citizen of the United States.) And things may be changing even within the U.S.. The anti-nuclear-power position was, for years, a shibboleth of liberal progressives, but 60 percent of Americans now say that they\u2019re in favor of nuclear energy. (To this day, 20 percent of American energy is generated by nuclear.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    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. A decade ago, the great documentarian Robert Stone (\u201cChasing the Moon,\u201d \u201cOswald\u2019s Ghost\u201d) \u2014 no relation to Oliver \u2014 directed \u201cPandora\u2019s Promise,\u201d which put forth an even more immediate version of the case Oliver Stone makes: that nuclear energy has been unfairly demonized, and that more and more environmentalists believe it\u2019s destined to be our savior if we\u2019re going to rescue ourselves from the slow-burn entropy of climate change. \u201cPandora\u2019s Promise\u201d premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and I\u2019ll never forget the conversations there I kept having about it. I\u2019d say what an important film I thought it was, and the reply, inevitably, would be, \u201cBut it only presents one side!\u201d I thought: Really? <em>That\u2019s<\/em> your objection? We\u2019d been hearing the case <em>against<\/em> nuclear energy for 30 years. Now, here was a documentary that took 87 minutes to present the case <em>for<\/em> nuclear energy. It seemed, quite simply, as if no one wanted to listen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The same thing may be going on with Stone\u2019s \u201cNuclear,\u201d which provoked a mixed response when it premiered, a month ago, at the Venice Film Festival and is still looking for a distributor. Yet Stone, who based the movie on the book \u201cA Bright Future,\u201d by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist (the narration, read by Stone, was written by Stone and Goldstein), colors in the historical parameters of nuclear power in a way that I defy you not to find eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Stone talks about the nuclear bomb, \u201cthe original sin of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,\u201d which became, he says, \u201ca collective trauma.\u201d (We see the infamous public-school images of duck-and-cover.) As he explains, \u201cI, too, once believed that the environmentalists were right, and that nuclear power was dangerous. We were, in our way, terribly miseducated, subconsciously cross-wiring nuclear war with nuclear power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It wasn\u2019t 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. (It was built by 1958.) The future would be all-electric! From the \u201960s through the \u201980s, 100 large reactors were built in the U.S. France opened its first nuclear reactor in 1964, and from 1975 to 1990 built 56 reactors. Sweden and Canada, too, were part of the movement, as those countries took giant steps toward getting off coal. For a long time, nuclear energy was allied with the conservationist movement and supported by institutions like the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But the major oil companies, nicknamed the Seven Sisters, were ready to take on nuclear power. \u201cNuclear\u201d presents evidence that the Rockefeller family, the mogul barons of Standard Oil, disseminated the false idea that even the lowest levels of radiation are harmful to human health. Stone claims that\u2019s an argument we\u2019ve been viscerally wired to agree with. He calls it a \u201ccontamination phobia,\u201d saying, \u201cWe\u2019ve evolved, after all, on a planet filled with uranium, and bombarded by both sunlight and cosmic rays. Our bodies are built by nature and by evolution to handle small amounts of radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet that\u2019s not the perception. The perception is that nuclear energy is dangerous because uranium, the material at its core (pun intended), is inherently dangerous. If you want to talk about strange bedfellows, consider this: The U.S. oil companies, in the \u201960s and \u201970s, became de facto partners of the anti-nuclear movement, allying themselves with \u201ctree huggers\u201d in order to help kill the key energy source that could compete with fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But today, Stone suggests, for perhaps the first time since the \u201950s we can actually start having the discussion, since there\u2019s a new factor at work in the nuclear-energy-is-unsafe-so-STFU zone. That factor, simply put, is this:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    You want to talk about unsafe? <em>Fossil fuels are unsafe<\/em>. Not just in the way they\u2019ve always been (they create pollution, which is bad for you), but in the relatively new way that mainstream culture has come to regard them: as the driving force behind climate change, the mother of all unsafe energy trends. It\u2019s killing the planet. It\u2019s choking off the possibilities of the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It is, on balance, far more dangerous than nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A connected idea: Our global need for electricity is going to multiply in the coming decades. That\u2019s because three-quarters of the world\u2019s population, who we tend to think of as \u201cpoor,\u201d live in developing nations, and they are going to be wanting air conditioners, computers, and all the other benefits of the developed world. How can this escalating demand for electricity be met without an even more catastrophic rise in carbon emissions? By ramping up the wind turbines?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    No one, except for oil-company executives and their Republican enablers in Congress, is against the renewables. Oliver Stone certainly isn\u2019t. Wind and solar will be a strong part of the future. But once again, we run into a wall of perception\/reality. The perception, going back to the No Nukes era, is that renewables, which are now a major growth industry, are a wonderful organic way of creating energy that are destined to replace the dirty dangers of coal. Which sounds fantastic. The reality is that renewables, even given the growth curve they\u2019re on, will not be able to generate close to all the electricity our world needs for many, many decades. <em>We cannot depend on them to fill the gap<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Stone makes the point that middle-class culture has become all about personal virtue in terms of people reducing their carbon footprint: recycling, electric cars, the use of more environmentally friendly consumer products, all held together by the wish that these things will add up and make\u2026the difference. But they won\u2019t. That they will is actually something of a progressive fantasy (one could argue that it\u2019s a feel-good tic of the consumer culture). It\u2019s not that the rise of, say, electric cars isn\u2019t going to have an impact; of course it will. It\u2019s that it\u2019s not enough to stem the tide of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In the last decade, Oliver Stone has made some documentaries I\u2019ve had mixed feelings about, like his exploratory but overly soft-pedaled portraits of Vladimir Putin and Fidel Castro, or his recent conspiracy jaunt \u201cJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.\u201d I have been, at key points, a Stone believer (I think \u201cNatural Born Killers\u201d and \u201cNixon\u201d are two of the greatest American films), but I am not a conspiracy theorist. I think that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, killing JFK with three shots from the Texas Book Depository. But \u201cNuclear,\u201d which is laced with Stone\u2019s intelligence and his quest for the truth, comes from a different place than the fever-dream polemical sphere that has often been associated with this filmmaker. The case it makes for nuclear power is sober, grounded, journalistic. But don\u2019t take my word for it. If and when \u201cNuclear\u201d lands a distributor, seek the movie out. 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