Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

It's , it is exactly how you lay it out in the film . It's almost like we have to cure ourselves of these misconceptions . And if we don't , we're screwed China's building , man .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

I'm really glad how you covered it in this uh documentary about Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and Fukushima . We have these ideas in our mind about the dangers of new good power . And I love the analogy that you made in the film about how driving a car is not scary , but it's dangerous flying in a plane feels scary , but it's far safer .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

That's what was confusing to me . 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 .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

It's all , it's in the earth uranium , it's everywhere , the planet , the earth , the sun . And we , in a sense , uh we took it like prometheus and we kind of misinterpreted it misused it , which is not , which is kind of normal for given that what we do with natural things . World War Two was happening just as the uh as the nuclear fission was being understood and that made the bomb , they made the bomb with it because it was a war on .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

Uh they , they rushed in and they did a , they did an amazing job Oppenheimer down in uh the , the in Los Alamos but , and they got it and they were successful . But uh as you know , it was misunderstood at that point that nuclear energy was not nuclear bomb . In the contrary , it was a bomb is very difficult to build and it takes a lot .