Oliver Stone's new movie destroys misconceptions about nuclear energy
Oliver Stone's new movie destroys misconceptions about nuclear energy
‘Nuclear Now’ director Oliver Stone discusses his new documentary about nuclear energy on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #foxbusiness #clamancountdown
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0.539 -> I get a strange call from the SEC they
3 -> asked to see my records this is heavy
4.799 -> but I don't know where you get your
6.48 -> information son but I don't like it
8.519 -> Michael Douglas why do you need to wreck
10.92 -> this cup because it's wreckable all
12.42 -> right Charlie Sheen when does it all end
14.94 -> huh how many Yachts can you water ski
17.34 -> behind how much is enough
19.619 -> I could watch that every day for the
21.72 -> rest of time Fame director Oliver Stone
24.119 -> made the phrase greed is good a mantra
27.06 -> for Wall Street now he's saying clean is
29.699 -> good when it comes to energy
30.9 -> specifically nuclear energy the two-time
34.26 -> academy award-winning director has just
36.12 -> released his newest documentary nuclear
38.399 -> now which tackles misconceptions about
41.16 -> the controversial energy source and
42.84 -> places the blame for those
44.04 -> misconceptions squarely on both
46.2 -> Hollywood but also Big Oil joining us
49.02 -> now director Oliver Stone alongside
51.48 -> Charlie gasparino Oliver you've said
54.12 -> there's always a lie behind every story
56.34 -> worth telling what lies do you say
58.62 -> you've uncovered in your hunt for the
60.12 -> truth about nuclear energy in this
61.559 -> documentary
63.539 -> well first of all I want to preface that
65.64 -> by saying it's not I'm not a scientist
67.56 -> I'm going off a book that I purchased
70.14 -> and I we optioned the book it's called
72.659 -> Uh bright future it's by Josh Goldstein
75.6 -> and Stefan Smith who's a nuclear
77.88 -> engineer they wrote this book in 2019
80.58 -> and they explored the all the nuclear
83.939 -> history and business from the beginning
85.86 -> to and to now and that's why we went
88.2 -> into this movie so I'm off I'm this is
90.72 -> based on information that's coming to me
92.28 -> not that I you understand what I'm
94.38 -> saying of course uh so it's important
97.2 -> because I claim I don't claim this but
99.72 -> this is
100.68 -> to me the most accurate documentary
103.5 -> about nuclear energy that I have seen
105.479 -> yet and it needs it people don't really
107.46 -> understand it they all have an opinion
109.14 -> everyone has an opinion about everything
110.939 -> and they'll tell you on pro-nuclear I'm
113.399 -> anti-nuclear this is that but that
115.079 -> doesn't get to the bottom of the problem
116.46 -> which is we don't have enough clean
118.32 -> energy in the world
120.36 -> and it's a growing world and it's
122.28 -> getting bigger and bigger the demand for
124.14 -> clean energy is important crucial and we
128.039 -> find that the there's a big gap as we
130.8 -> look to the Future 2030 2040 and we we
134.22 -> examine those decades and we see that
137.78 -> Renewables which are very which we're
139.8 -> we're positive about we have to be it's
141.78 -> the Sun and and uh and solar and wind
144.98 -> are helpful but they're not going to
147.239 -> close this Gap that that womb between
149.459 -> the world that's growing
151.26 -> India Africa Asia the whole the works I
154.02 -> mean this is a gigantic Global
156.239 -> Enterprise and that's what this film
157.62 -> addresses the world problem let me put
160.08 -> to you in one quick way the head of
162.48 -> rosaton was a brilliant man Andre
164.58 -> likachef he's in the movie he says in
167.519 -> the film he says you know right now we
169.379 -> have
170.12 -> 490 gigabytes of uh
173.519 -> of energy of nuclear energy in the world
176.879 -> okay 490 that sounds like a that's a a
180.36 -> lot it's a billion gigabytes a billion
182.519 -> so we're talking a huge amount and yet
185.459 -> he says this he says
188.34 -> if we substituted that with carbon
190.92 -> dioxide and and methane we would have
194.22 -> two billion tons of exhaust in the sky
196.86 -> it would be even more the world would
200.159 -> it's impossible it's frightening
204.48 -> he said he remember he said Charlie he
206.7 -> said this is a Third Lung for the world
210 -> a Third Lung that yeah we need another
212.64 -> one
216.019 -> because as the years go by I'm Sorry
219.42 -> Charlie go ahead no I was gonna say what
221.159 -> I loved about the movie and or the
223.019 -> documentary is it was just the facts
225.299 -> ma'am in so many ways it wasn't yes
228.06 -> there was a point of view dramatically
230.4 -> told the fact the facts were
231.959 -> dramatically told him one of the facts
233.459 -> that it blew me away quite frankly is
235.92 -> you know the exact human Damage Done by
238.98 -> the mistakes in nuclear plants that you
241.86 -> know Chernobyl uh Fukushima you name it
244.62 -> they are de minimis compared to the
247.4 -> absolute freak out over this stuff and
250.56 -> you know why how did that happen I mean
252.9 -> it was it just the media being played or
255.12 -> was it big oil place yes all I mean what
257.82 -> happened there right it's the same way
259.859 -> that plane crashes are more dramatic and
262.5 -> melodramatic than a car crash but car
264.96 -> crashes happen all the time more people
266.82 -> die in cars than in Planes planes have
269.34 -> been made safer and safer and safer the
271.5 -> same is true about nuclear the more you
273.06 -> build the more you you have it gets
275.1 -> safer and safer and safer and there's
277.74 -> all kinds of techniques to build a
279.419 -> nuclear and different countries are
281.699 -> doing different things the most
283.62 -> promising countries frankly are China
285.3 -> and Russia they're doing the most amount
287.34 -> but now it's growing and we have careers
290.699 -> coming back into the game Japan is
292.259 -> coming back into the game and France has
295.02 -> always been in the game never been out
296.34 -> of the game so it's fascinating to see
299.46 -> look at the results and when you look at
301.68 -> the results you see it's been working
303.24 -> for 50 60 years nuclear there's been one
306.96 -> serious accident and that was a
308.46 -> churnable we explained that in detail
310.02 -> there was no containment structure blew
312.36 -> me away the way you'd explain that and
314.34 -> you know what else blows me but right
315.66 -> now in New York City right now you got
317.16 -> to see our skies it's wildfires this is
319.62 -> all contaminating the the environment
321.54 -> that's the key you know if you don't
323.039 -> believe it even if you don't believe in
324.479 -> climate change we need we have we have a
327 -> health problem and that's that's that's
328.5 -> that's pollution and this deals with it
331.02 -> and that's another thing that you
332.1 -> brought up brilliantly I thought yeah
334.22 -> approximately four million people a year
336.18 -> dollar from pollution uh two million die
339.06 -> in industrial accidents uh
341.88 -> at least 500 000 from coal pollution so
345.479 -> I mean the the figures on Chernobyl are
348.12 -> 50 dead at the at the site the First
350.639 -> Responders they were not properly
353.06 -> and about they're estimating that's what
355.979 -> U.N and World Health about four or five
359.28 -> thousand died from cancer from the
362.16 -> low-level radiation that was in the air
363.96 -> for over northern Europe at the time so
366.9 -> all in you know compare this to the the
370.259 -> deaths from a Bhopal explosion gas
372.66 -> explosion in India where 18 000 people
375.18 -> were killed or a hydroelectric Dam in
377.88 -> China crashing in 1975 you know 250 000
381.66 -> people that we have to be honest about
383.52 -> this in order to save ourselves as a
385.319 -> planet and we're not being honest we're
387.539 -> not giving all I see in newspapers is
390.02 -> when they mentioned nuclear they say and
392.88 -> the dangers of nuclear well what the
394.86 -> dangers let's be realistic well as
397.44 -> Charlie put it as Charlie put it de
399.479 -> Minimus uh not to Minimus and I I do
402.24 -> have to ask you this because it is
403.68 -> obviously the news in the last 24 hours
405.539 -> uh Oliver is that the DGA the director's
408.24 -> guilt of America has struck a deal with
410.58 -> the studios while the writers are are
413.46 -> still struggling to get get some love
415.38 -> and attention or at least a meeting what
417.9 -> is your thought about that
420.06 -> I'm not inside the negotiations I know
422.88 -> the DJ I'm very happy the DGA settled
425.28 -> with it uh now but you know I am also a
428.1 -> writer so I'm a writer director exactly
429.78 -> and on both sides of it and I support
431.34 -> the writers because they have really
433.259 -> been they're the heart of the industry I
435.18 -> mean they they create this material and
437.1 -> they have not been I don't think they've
439.199 -> been fairly dealt with and I think we
442.02 -> have to change this it's going under
443.759 -> they'll win this strike they'll come to
446.22 -> a good place I think that would be
448.139 -> wonderful
449.099 -> um thank you thank you so much the new
451.199 -> documentary is called nuclear now and
453.78 -> it's a must-see it's a must-see it's
456.979 -> non-ideological Peter thiels in it you
459.72 -> got both sides of the story this is this
462.78 -> is this is Real documentary Making in my
464.819 -> view whatever whatever that's worth
468.479 -> thank you thank you Oliver Oliver Stone
470.58 -> and Charlie thank you so much coming up
472.68 -> here to react to Oliver Stone's nuclear
474.9 -> push is the always opinionated Kevin
476.88 -> O'Leary who has invested in oil closing
480.72 -> bell 13 minutes away we are coming right
482.819 -> back Dow Jones Industrial still holding
484.56 -> on to gains of 95 points
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