Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

And then when the fad I mean , becomes fashionable , it was very successful movement . You're talking about the negatives here and the accidents and uh we , we cover all that in the film , which is called nuclear . Now , and the idea that was behind it was because I really was like you , I mean , I , I went along with those things in the seventies and the eighties because I didn't know better .

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

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

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 .

Oliver Stone Pushes Back Against Fears Over Nuclear Power

And this is a great analogy to nuclear power when you went over the the data , when you talked about the amount of deaths from coal every year . When you talk about the amount of deaths overall ever from nuclear , it's , it's stunning . It's stunning .