Rethinking Nuclear Power
In the coming months I will be blogging here about a film I’m making called “Pandora’s Promise”. The film is an independently produced, feature-length documentary about the history of nuclear power, told in part through the eyes of several prominent former ‘anti-nukers’ who have recently come to believe, as I do, that without the rapid development of nuclear energy we are unlikely to have any hope of mitigating an unprecedented man-made climate catastrophe.
The film will show how ideology, dogma and a misunderstanding of science and technology are driving not just the right (in denying man-made climate disruptions) but also the left (when it comes to realistically confronting our energy options). For those concerned about the twin crises of climate