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Film Pandora’s Promise – an infomercial for the nuclear lobby

Paper: CNN’s nuclear propaganda film “is dishonest to its core” — It’s “actually an infomercial” http://enenews.com/cnns-nuclear-propaganda-film-is-dishonest-to-its-core-pandoras-promise-is-actually-an-infomercial
Title: Pandora’s Promise: Would You Buy a Nuclear Reactor
Source: Seattle Weekly
Author: Brian Miller
Date: Jun 11 2013

My ears prick up whenever I hear how Bill Gates and Paul Allen are spending their money. Putatively a documentary about the resurgence of nuclear power, Pandora’s Promise is actually an infomercial for a business still stigmatized by Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, and our fears of all things atomic. […]

[…] Pandora’s Promise, which was produced by CNN and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions. (Robert Stone is the director-for-hire.) […]

But the doc’s bigger flaw is that no one is allowed to make a reasoned anti-nuclear argument. […] And when I hear Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) say that “to be anti-nuclear is fundamentally to be in favor of burning fossil fuels,” it sounds perfectly sensible. And that’s the problem with Pandora’s Promise: Though many of its claims may be truthful, the film is dishonest to its core.
See also: Experts: The planet can be powered solely by wind, water and solar energy (NO ‘fossil fuels’ or nuclear power)

June 13, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster