Pandora’s Revenge
Pandora’s Revenge
By Nick Touran, Ph.D., 2013-05-18
On Januray 18, 2013, Robert Stone’s Pandora’s Promise [pandoraspromise.com]
was released at the 2013 Sundance film festival in Park City, UT. This
feature-length documentary attempts to convince mainstream society that
nuclear energy is a good idea, and to make us rethink our many
assumptions. It features interviews
with environmentalist Stewart Brand (who surprised some of his followers
by going pro-nuclear in his latest book "Whole Earth Discipline"), New
York Times editor Gwyneth Cravens (of "Power to Save the World" fame),
and others. It explains even the more subtle advantages of nuclear
energy extremely well. I watched a pre-release about a month ago and was
very impressed. "What now, anti-nukes?," I wondered.
On May 13th, anti-nuclear group BeyondNuclear published a 38-page pdf written by Linda Pentz Gunter called "Pandora’s False Promises" [beyondnuclear.org] which has been picked up by every anti-nuclear person on Earth and waved around as gospel. But, alas, rather than making some good, productive counter-points, it swings way the other way and posits a bunch of mega-BS. The tone is nearly hysterical and is painful for me to read as an engineer. Granted, I’m a nuclear engineer but take a peek and see if it doesn’t sound a little crazy-eyed to you too. This is a very natural place for whatisnuclear.com to jump in and deal.
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