Pandora's Promise

Name: Pandora's Promise
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 12, 2013
Rating: 54

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CNN Films | Release Date: June 12, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: A feature-length documentary about the history and future of nuclear power. The film explores how and why mankind's most feared and controversial technological discovery is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it.

Director: Robert Stone

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

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Bill Stamets

Jun 20, 2013

[This] timely documentary is less persuasive about translating logic into political and economic reality. Read full review

John Anderson

Jun 10, 2013

Some parts of the film are drily academic, but much of it is quite beautiful and artfully put together by the director. Read full review

Louis Black

Jun 19, 2013

An amazing argument no matter which side of the debate you favor, Stone’s film manages to restock and bring a fresh voice to an old controversy. The documentary is well-made and articulately argued, although that doesn't mean it isn't going to have as many adversaries as champions. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Jun 10, 2013

The film’s restricted scope of analysis and limited selection of sources threatens to undermine its conclusions. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Nov 7, 2013

This film certainly chops up a few sacred cows. Could it be that the anti-wind brigade will have to make common cause with climate change scientists? Read full review

Nick Schager

Jun 11, 2013

The proceedings, no matter how logical their contentions, come off as merely one side of the debate. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Jun 11, 2013

Why Stone also chooses to characterize those on his side as feeble-brained hippie protestors is a mystery, but in its attempts to debunk the feasibility of massive energy reduction, Pandora’s Promise at least brings some measure of rhetorical skill to its arguments. Read full review

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Mar 8, 2017

If you care about your children and grandchildren breathing, you should watch this artful documentary.

Scientists have known this information for about 20 years but the general public has not been informed. The movie came out in 2013 as we were recovering from the big recession–few peopleIf you care about your children and grandchildren breathing, you should watch this artful documentary.

Scientists have known this information for about 20 years but the general public has not been informed. The movie came out in 2013 as we were recovering from the big recession–few people cared to watch it. This is a healthy story of scientific nuclear power told to the general public. It is not a nerd movie; everyday people will understand. The movie flows along well with environmentalists, nuclear scientists and critical sites from all over the world. The movie includes interviews from environmentalists who have demonstrated against nuclear power. The movie tracks all background radiation and from the power plant failures from Chernobyl to Fukuyama in its history of power plants. The data, shown in real time, is surprising as your mind tries accommodating to what you previously assumed. The general public's fears of nuclear along with the real results of all nuclear power plants in the world are covered. France gets 80% of their power from nuclear and have a carbon footprint of only 10. You get more natural radiation from higher elevations. So flying in a plane is more than twenty times the radiation than people get that are now living in Chernobyl. No one has ever died from nuclear power plants in the US, but 10,000 die per year just from coal burning power plants. The US developed a FNR rector that could shut itself down under similar conditions that caused Chernobyl and Fukuyama to explode-It was abandoned by political pressure and the lack of public global warming knowledge. What about proliferation? About 30 countries have the technology to develop nuclear weapons but only nine have done so. Most countries don't want to have a "bomb". The US buys nuclear war heads from Russia and recycles them for fuel in reactors. Nuclear power is by far the safest cleanest source of world power. The only source that we have that can stop the world weather effects of co2 emissions given our need for power to improve everyone's lives.… Expand

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