Pandora’s Promise

I felt that this documentary was full of information and helped to understand many things about nuclear power. The movie started pulling you in with the cold vibe it gave against nuclear power. Many opinions were shared about how we should not support this as a country, because there are many dangers within power plants. Some of the issues I have heard of before because there are some basic opinions on nuclear power that everyone seems to know, but there was far more information that I can completely remember.

Radiation is the biggest fear that I hear a lot about in this documentary. Subatomic particles within radiation travel fast and can penetrate the human body, and is very likely to cause damage. If  one of these power plants were to explode, such as Chernobyl in the Ukraine, the radiation can travel and spread extremely far causing lots and lots of destruction to cities, humans, animals, and anything that is in its path.

The photo above is Chernobyl after the radiation destruction. There was barely anything left, and this is one reason why people do not agree with nuclear power. The radiation can be cancerous to humans, and there could be many other dangers if a plant were to explode.

Another thing I noticed in this, is that there was also a lot of focus towards solar and wind power. There were scenes that showed fields filled with solar panels, or mountains with wind turbines. Although these ideas harmful it was brought up that it may not always be sunny or windy, in which that would not be in the favor of these sources of energy. Many people do not like the way these look either, especially when there are wind turbines up on mountains. I can agree seeing these would ruin a view, but there aren’t many places that one would be able to hide something this large.

I did feel that this film did help in trying to understand the effects of nuclear power on global warming, but at times it was hard to follow just because there was so much information to try and process. It was a great way to be able to tell people about the dangers of nuclear power because if people were to not watch this, they may not know much about the topic and this was a good way to help.