Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

It's stunning . And then when you cut to , in the documentary , you showed the anti nuclear movement that happened after Three Mile Island and how crazy it was . There's all these stars and celebrities and they're doing concerts .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

There's all configurations in the bomb that don't exist in nuclear energy . So when people see a nuclear energy plant , they subconsciously , they cross it with both war and they cross it with horror films that they've seen in the 19 fifties with radioactivity and monsters that come out of that . You know , spider , the spider bites the man and you become Spiderman .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

There's all these stars and celebrities and they're doing concerts . We've got to stop nuclear power and what a mess that happens . And then when the fad I mean , becomes fashionable , it was very successful movement .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

And I really , you know , we're miseducated . Uh uh and there is still a bias against nuclear if you mention it to anybody instantly . It's , yeah , but the , the point is we can live with it and we have to because we're facing arm , we're facing a very difficult situation , a a cliff that we're gonna go over and it seems that no one's really getting it .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

That's what I've seen but there could be more coal in the so and who knows what the , the health negatives are on top of that . Like how many people are suffering with illnesses and ailments because of those partake , especially around those reactors or , or the , the plants rather , it's horrible . But we still have coal in the US .