Pandora’s Promise Movie Reaction

Background

Pandora’s Promise is a 87 minutes documentary film about nuclear power debate, directed by Robert Stone. The central argument is that nuclear power, an energy source which still faces historical opposition from environmentalists, is a relatively safe and clean source which can help mitigate the serious problem of anthropogenic global warming. This movie includes those peoples whom were once vehemently opposed to nuclear power but who now speak in favor of it, Stewart Brand, Gwyneth Cravens, Mark Lynas, Richard Rhodes and Michael Shellenberger. They talked about nuclear disasters in the past and how they changed their mind through this 87 minutes film. Also, the total money was raised to finance this movie is $1.2 million (US).

This video below is an official trailer of Pandora’s Promise movie which shows a general idea about what would happen in this movie.

Is nuclear power safe?

The answer is yes. Base on the evidence over six decades shows that nuclear power is a safe means of generating electricity. The risk of accidents in nuclear power plants is low and declining. Moreover, the radiological effects on people of any radioactive releases can be avoided. According to Gwyneth Cravens’s speech in this film, she mentions that, “Physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott…calling the nuclear industry a ‘death industry’ and claiming that facilities from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster were upward of 1 million people. But several others in film, put the number at only around 50, or if you count some sick people who haven’t yet died, in the low thousands.” It means, the radiation did not affect dangerously to human lives as what we had seen on the news. Because of social media, we created an antipathy to this energy source without understand clearly about how it works and impacts. Also, there has not been a single death from operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the United States.

Nuclear power is greener and safer than coal. According to the information in this film, coal can kill 13,000 people every year in the United States with a few add up all fossil fuel combination. Peoples keep using coal in producing while they avoid nuclear power just because of the exposing of three nuclear power plants. They do not know that it would kill people.

Conclusion

After watching this documentary film, there are too much information in this movie and it made me confuse a little bit, and I could not get the main point in the first seen. However, everything is good and organized. Also, I have learned that no energy sources can be replace by another such as solar and nuclear power. We cannot replace nuclear power by solar. They have their own job to provide energy for human lives. Solar is not nuclear. You cannot turn on Sun in the winter to heat up your house. Instead of avoiding and looking for the other safe energy source, we should learn how to deal with the danger around us. As you can see, the picture below shows that if we take away nuclear power, the our planet is going to lose its balance.

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