Nuclear Now - why we must look again

With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, Nuclear Now explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty, and to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy.

In this documentary by Oliver Stone, the importance of pronuclear advocacy is a major theme. Heather Hoff makes an appearance around 48min, holding her daughter while speaking to the California State Lands Commission in 2016 about the future of Diablo Canyon.

There are also scenes of the Rally to Save Clean Energy!

We are honored to be in this film, and have hosted showings or participated in panel discussions in several forums already including at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, the Physics Department at Cal Poly, and with the Association of Women in Water, Energy, and Environment.

During the film showing at SLO IFF, we were excited to be approached by members of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, Surfrider, the local Sierra Club, and a local lifelong learners discussion group. They all wanted to learn more about nuclear, and had hopes that their chapters could host MfN for a future visit. Times are changing!

Some comments we heard:

The phrase in the film that really made me sit up and take notice was something like "what is scary is not necessarily what is dangerous," and the example of fear of flying -- which I definitely have, yet I do fly in airplanes. 

I watched Nuclear Now from the AWWEE event. Definitely had a positive impact on how I perceive nuclear energy now.

After attending an environmental academy and receiving a BA in environment analysis I am more cautious because I have had some environmental studies teachers who were really against nuclear. But I am all for getting my mind changed by the movie!

The documentary was fascinating! I actually signed up for a tour of San Onofre because I want to learn more.

It had not occurred to me that the conflation of nuclear power and nuclear war and scaremongering about nuclear power would have been commercially motivated propaganda by the fossil fuel industry but once this idea was raised in the film it took very little to convince me of this as those corporations have been known for such tactics for decades. Ironic that they were able to turn the environmentalists against their own interests and principles!