In 2022, Oliver Stone will direct and co-write the American documentary Nuclear. The movie promotes nuclear energy as a necessary countermeasure to climate change.

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The book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by US scientists Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist served as the inspiration for the film. The movie's screenplay was co-written by Oliver Stone and Goldstein.[1]

The documentary had its world debut outside of competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival. At the 53rd World Economic Forum in 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, Stone and Goldstein later endorsed their proposals.[2] One of Vangelis' last cinematic soundtracks is featured in it.

Plot:

As the film's narrator, Stone promotes nuclear power as a secure energy source that may take the place of fossil fuels and so aid in the battle against climate change. In the next 30 years, he projects that the need for power would double or quadruple globally. Stone advises mass-producing nuclear power facilities to guarantee enough support with low-carbon energy.

According to Stone, middle-class consumers' efforts to feel good—such as recycling, driving electric vehicles, and buying ecologically beneficial goods—do not really affect the climate. The anti-nuclear campaign is accused by the writers of the screenplay of equating nuclear energy with nuclear weapons and therefore instilling a fundamental dread of this source of energy. 

The authors further claim that the efforts have been funded by the oil and gas sector.

Reception:

According to a Variety review, the arguments for and against nuclear power have existed for a very long time. But the critic advises viewers to approach the film with an open mind, speculating that it may have a similar effect as An Inconvenient Truth.[4] Nuclear received the Enrico Fulchignoni award from the International Council for Film, Television, and Audiovisual Communication (CICT ICFT) at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. The panel concluded that the film contributes fresh and daring scientific perspectives to the debate over a contentious subject.[5] The movie, according to Damon Wise of Deadline, is "a hard watch" but "puts forward a lot of unexpected proposals about nuclear energy, debunking powerful myths along the way."