News Release 81
Pandora's Promise
February 1, 2014

Nuclear Energy is gaining traction: President Obama supporting U.S. Department of Energy�s purchase of small modular reactors, China and India aggressively pursuing advanced nuclear designs, and climate scientist Jim Hansen�s recent scientific paper focusing on the promise of nuclear energy as our best hope for dramatically reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Impact Partners and CNN Films has presented PANDORA�S PROMISE, the groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award�-nominated director Robert Stone. Nuclear technology can save the planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty. In his controversial new film,

Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy, risking their careers and reputations in the process.

Stone exposes this controversy within the environmental movement head-on with stories of defection by heavy weights including Stewart Brand, Richard Rhodes, Gwyneth Cravens, Mark Lynas and Michael Shellenberger.

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