Episode Transcript: #1992 - Oliver Stone

yeah, i have been fascinated by this subject for a long time and i'm very, very happy that

you made this documentary and it's a very good documentary by the way.

thank you for making it and thank you for highlighting this very, very important issue

that seems to have been really confused and i'm really glad how you covered it in this

documentary about three mile island and chernobyl and fukushima. we have these ideas in our mind

about the dangers of nuclear power and i love the analogy that you made in the film about how

driving a car is not scary but it's dangerous. flying in a plane feels scary but it's far safer

and this is a great analogy to nuclear power. when you went over the data, when you talked about the

amount of deaths from coal every year, when you talk about the amount of deaths overall ever

from nuclear, it's stunning. it is. it's stunning and then when you cut to, in the documentary you

showed the anti-nuclear movement that happened after three mile island and how crazy it was.

all these stars and celebrities and they're doing concerts. we've got to stop nuclear power and

what a mess. that happens when a fad, i mean, becomes fashionable. it was a very successful

movement. you're talking about the negatives here and the accidents and we cover all that in the

film which is called nuclear now and the idea that was behind it was because i really was like you.

i mean, i went along with those things in the 70s and the 80s because i didn't know better.

i didn't, i wasn't educated. i really wanted to know what is nuclear power. i wanted to go back

to the source and you've got to go back to the beginning and you've got to go back to marie curie

and albert einstein and world war ii and all how it could, how it got developed. this nuclear energy