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The Chris Cuomo Project

Oliver Stone

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Director and co-writer Oliver Stone (“Wall Street,” “JFK,” “W”) and co-writer Joshua S. Goldstein (Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University) join Chris to discuss “Nuclear Now,” their film investigating whether nuclear power is a crucial tool in fighting climate change and the world’s energy needs. In a wide-ranging conversation, the three explore how and why nuclear energy fell out of favor in the United States, the pervasiveness of anti-nuclear propaganda campaigns, why people who understand nuclear power the most are the least afraid of the technology, nuclear misconceptions surrounding disasters, waste storage, and water consumption, how the international community continues to embrace nuclear power, and much more. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, when you see me like this, you know what it means.

0:03.3

This is about the Chris Cuomo project podcast, Oliver Stone and his co-writer on his new

0:10.7

movie Nuclear Now are going to be on the podcast, talking about one of the most controversial

0:16.3

subjects, one of the most dangerous conversations we're not having about nuclear power as part

0:23.0

of the solution for a green economy.

0:30.0

Gentlemen, thank you so much to discuss your very ambitious product.

0:50.1

Oliver Stone, let me start with you.

0:52.5

A doing a documentary about nuclear power is very ambitious.

0:57.9

Why did you want to take on this task?

0:59.9

Well, if I knew what I was in for, I might have reconsidered.

1:04.9

It was very difficult to say two and a half years.

1:07.9

I took it on because I was scared and I was concerned for the future.

1:11.8

I've heard all the scene, many of the debates and documentaries about it.

1:16.9

And frankly, it was confusing points of view.

1:20.7

Josh Goldstein's book was reviewed along with his co-writer, Stefan Svist, Swedish Nuclear

1:28.7

Engineer.

1:30.3

Their book, Bright Future, came out in 2019 and was positively reviewed by the New York

1:36.1

Times, Richard Rhodes.

1:39.8

And Richard Rhodes is knowledgeable about nuclear energy and bomb too.

1:44.6

And I bought the book, bought the rights and I found Josh very cooperative because he

1:49.0

wanted to get it out there.

1:50.7

Of course, it's a drive book.

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