Nuclear Now
2022
Documentary

Nuclear Now
2022
Documentary
Plot summary
With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, Nuclear Now explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines. The United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet in the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by coal and oil interests.
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Hope For the Future?
Rated as a documentary/movie. Not the message.
Nuclear now is fragmented storytelling with questionable references.
Thunberg, gates, Kennedy. And at the end Martin Luther King and gandhi.... are all used in this one picture.
I almost added Hawking as well. Hawking was very aware of climafe change. But the way he was used... well I don't know. It doesn't feel like it adds to the story.
This is mixed with Excellent made graphs are shown without source reference and some interviews conducted by stone.
Everything else said before is misinformation and indoctrination. And the answer is nuclear without opposing views or just let bill Gates tell us that renewable are not enough and we need to compliment it with nuclear.
The opposing view that we get there with renewables is dealt with. Later on out of the many projects available one with bill Gates is picked as well. So bill Gates is now a leader to tell us about pandemics and climate change, nuclear energy??
I really would like to hear from specialists and researchers. Not investors.
Green peace and green parties don't come out well in the movie.
As does Jane fonda, Bruce Springsteen and other musicians who are opposed to atoms....
Think of them of influences...
Yet he uses another influencer to give the message of nuclear now. And all the famous people mentioned before. He uses to convey that message.
Honestly as a documentary it is trash.
I think it's a real shame that a filmmaker with his credentials has made this movie that should fit inside 50 minutes but instead takes twice as long.
He even felt it necessary to have the joke to swim in the pool in there. While the preceding minute was all about staying away from the pool. Those 2 minutes could have easily been cut.
There is also this famous scene from stand by me. Accompanied by a story that you can't outrun climate change?? I get what he is trying to say but using stand by me there it feels like exploitation and it distracts from the message as I am watching the boys...
This is not once, not twice but quite often that the storytelling goes astray.
Now I do agree that we won't get there . And we need to reconsider nuclear and other sources.
And it absolutely makes no sense to shut down operational plants without a cleaner alternative available.
Anyway I find it disrespectful to the viewer to mix real info with mentioned big names.
I still give it 3/10 for taking his time to shed a light on nuclear energy. And the music of Vangelis.
The way the movie is written and edited however it is just glorified propaganda.
It is a missed opportunity as I am on the nuclear bandwagon but I would love to have seen a more nuanced story that he would have just used researchers and scientists with source reference.