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Just perfect...

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Great Film overall

A lot of fun.

This documentary aptly illuminates the epidemic of single-mindedness within our society -- extremists on both sides of every major issue making decisions based not on facts but on deeply entrenched emotional convictions. It seems the vast majority of contributors to the nuclear power and global warming debates are more interested in tailoring facts to fit their views than they are in matching their views to the facts. Indeed many will go so far as to manufacture their own "facts" while suppressing or discrediting contradictory data in order to push an agenda. Attempting to find objective data on these issues is a daunting task so it was refreshing for me to see such unlikely advocates of nuclear power advocating for something they once admittedly abhorred.Overall the film was well-produced and managed to make a reasonable case for nuclear power while maintaining a sense of balance by examining the arguments on both sides of the debate. I only have a couple of complaints. For starters I was frustrated and amazed, frankly, by the complete lack of captioning typically seen in a documentary. This wouldn't have been near as much an issue if relevant information such as locations, dates, and particularly the names of the contributors and their credentials were included in the film's narrative. The only other major issue I had with the film is its failure in my opinion to adequately address one of the greatest concerns about nuclear power as a global energy solution -- proliferation -- the fear being that nuclear power would give any nation the practical capability of developing nuclear weapons at some point. The film attempted to address this important concern with the following lofty and somewhat naive platitude: "We won't get rid of nuclear weapons by forgetting how to make them; We'll get rid of nuclear weapons by deciding we don't want them anymore". The problem of course is that such sentiment presupposes a hallucinatory degree of trust and benevolence shared by heads of state and dictators everywhere.In the spirit of full disclosure I generally espouse what most would consider to be conservative views but I don't like to be called a conservative. I see labels as limitations placed on thought.

From purely a business point-of-view, this is all you need to know about nuclear power and global warming: http://youtu.be/mwIvGJJ_dtUI watched this film on Netflix recently and was sickened by the outright lies this film tells the viewer. Like the Pharmaceutical industry, the Nuclear industry always shields itself from critics, "alarmists" and those who dare to challenge the industry's track record through the lens of science. Science and technology are pure. They are neutral. The PR firms for the nuclear industry know that when they talk in these frames, the concern, worry and anger people have expressed fade into images of scientists in lab coats and hardworking people who are "trying to make a difference" for our future. This is far from the reality of the nuclear industry. It is a FOR PROFIT ONLY industry. Maximization of profit over the cost of safety. I would invite anyone who thinks otherwise to not only look at the track record of the past but also Google "Hanford", "Fukushima", "WIPP" – for starters today. Every single one of these sites is run by a corporation with a track record (before these recent accidents occurred) that cut corners on safety from day one continues to do so now. For proof, here is a short list of articles to being learning the truth about the nuclear industry... List of Radiation Induced Diseases - http://bit.ly/1rpkAEQ Background Radiation Has Increased 600 Percent since 1950: http://bit.ly/1rpkAEQ 100's of sourced articles: http://enenews.com Wall St. Journal: Report reveals WIPP containment system leaked radiation — 'Unfiltered' plutonium released into environment for 20 days after accident(VIDEO): http://bit.ly/1rqbvO3 RT News - Fukushima disaster: Tokyo hides truth as children die, become ill from radiation - ex-mayor: http://bit.ly/1jxv155 NBC: New data shows spike in babies born missing parts of brain around leaking US nuclear site: http://bit.ly/1puhKCW The truth is out there if you want to find it. The few in this industry who stand to profit in the 10's of billions (General Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba and others) will never relinquish their power unless we stand up and say "no more". What is being developed and carried is not done so in the name of science or technology. It is pure insanity.

The documentary is a complete mess in regards to facts. A few are there to be sure, but so scattered and disconnected that you will learn nothing about nuclear energy, good or bad. Indeed, if you have a real interest in the subject, it will take less effort to simply pick a physics book and start reading from chapter one.What the documentary does (if it does anything at all) is to display a tiny portion of human stupidity. From activists to scientists, and various other creatures, we hear unsophisticated social/political theories that make absolutely no sense but that they are delighted to tell the world about nonetheless. And when the documentary does allow a professional politician to speak (e.g. Thatcher), it is to manipulate the audience by misconstruing the very manipulation of the politician herself. In other words, it is a mess.In sum, it isn't worth watching on account of the presumed topic. Regarding the human folly, one can turn the TV on any channel for much of the same.

This movie is a wake up about nuclear energy. It explains common misconceptions about nuclear energy. The speakers are all convincing and at least one of them goes through his transition (like the others interviewed he was once anti-nuclear and becomes pro nuclear) during the Fukushima crisis. All those interviewed care very much about what has been happening to the environment and the effect it will have on our future if steady and growing amounts of CO2 and other pollutants and green house gases continue. Since nuclear plants emit no CO2 they can replace coal very effectively. Robert Stone is a respected documentary maker and his successful Radio Bikini was an Oscar nominee in 1988. I think the most effective moments in the film are when the dosimeter is used to measure radiation. The areas that trigger radiation are not anywhere near a plant. There is natural radiation where we don't expect to detect it that measures very close to that of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Not only did the subjects interviewed have a change of heart but so did the director. These environmentalists are pro nuclear because they recognize that renewable energy is just too sparse and difficult to ramp up because of the low density of the power sources.