GreensForNuclear.Energy
A short clip of Dr James Hansen delivering his testimony to the hearing of the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
updated 6 years ago
It challenges a foundational principle for the green movement - being anti-nuclear - from within the movement itself.
Offering a unique perspective on nuclear energy, Critical sets out the case for nuclear energy with green activists from around England and Finland speaking up for it. We follow green party member Mark Yelland visiting various nuclear facilities and launching a unique campaign: Greens For Nuclear Energy.
The film features interviews with 2 highly respected experts in their respective fields:
• Prof. Kevin Anderson, Professor of Climate and Energy at the University of Manchester, on energy's relationship with the climate science
• Prof. Gerry Thomas, former chair of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College, and former Director of the Chernobyl Tissue Project, on the health impacts of nuclear accidents.
Interviews with Green Party members in England and Finland are intertwined with Mark's nuclear tour: a high-level storage unit, a French nuclear waste recycling facility and an underground research laboratory for a deep geological waste repository.
This film reasons that it was perfectly understandable that the early green movement campaigned (and still campaigns) to ban nuclear weapons, but that by association, this has became intertwined with opposing nuclear energy.
But - so the film argues - ‘that was then, this is now’, and that nuclear's ultra low carbon contribution is now essential to help avert a climate disaster.
A film exploring whether, in the face of the many challenges posed by our emerging climate crisis, the Green movement can overcome it's traditional and embedded opposition to low carbon Nuclear Energy to assist the world in averting a climate catastrophe.
website: www.greensfornuclear.energy - twitter: @Greens4Nuclear
Cleve Hill Solar Park in Kent [planned], including a tour around their perimeters
Dungeness B - Land area/footprint: 46 acres - Capacity: 1110MW
Cleve Hill Solar Park - Land area/footprint: 900 acres - Capacity: 350MW


