Nuclear review: Oliver Stone’s paean to a nuclear future

A new documentary explores the promise of nuclear energy as an antidote to the climate crisis, but the result may be a little too one-sided

By Davide Abbatescianni

Oliver Stone interviews Ashley Finan, director of the National Reactor Innovation Center, Idaho

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AFTER the release of Frankie Fenton’s documentary Atomic Hope earlier this year, another non-fiction film supporting nuclear energy is about to hit our screens. In Nuclear, which recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival, director Oliver Stone trumpets his message loud and clear: renewable energy isn’t going to save us from global warming, and nuclear power is the only way to meet the world’s growing energy demand.

Stone’s thesis is …