PANDORA PROMISE

 

    Talking about nuclear reactors has always been a sketchy topic, and it had a lot of bad reputation because of the word nuclear. When you hear "nuclear," people tense up. Everyone oversees a touchy subject, but they don't get the true story because people overlook it. So you had this solid residue, of "This is not primarily an Energy Source, this is primarily a weapon that we all think very bad about." Which caused all of the Anti-Nuclear Protests. The documentary captured the fear and why we shouldn't be scared of this type of energy was really amazing. One scene that still holds on to me is that "A pound of Uranium that is the size of your finger; if we were to disperse that energy, it would be equal to 5000 barrels of petroleum." That's just mind-blowing to know how much greater the efficiency is.

I wasn't expecting to see how many people were against it, and they made stories called the china syndrome. The China syndrome is if a reactor were to meltdown, it would put a hole in the earth that would dig down to china. it was pretty upsetting to see how so many people were misguided because the Oil Industry made a lot of propaganda against radiation so they can make more money. But reactors aren't just about death and cancer that can come from radiation. It's about how efficient and how clean it is, which is why e need to get the ord out more which this documentary did.

Why are people still scared of nuclear anything? How can people who are Pro-Nuclear help? Could the evidence in the film be used to solve problems that we may have today? Do nuclear power plants help global warming? This documentary helped me realize one of the big reasons why nuclear power went south was that the US started ith small reactors and took giant leaps in order for it to be capitalized like how they did with every other energy source.