In the 2012 film Pandora’s Promise, the environmental technology primarily being defended is nuclear power.
Pandora’s Promise is a documentary directed by Robert Stone. It follows environmentalists and other former nuclear opponents who reconsider their views and argue that nuclear energy can help address climate change and the environmental costs of fossil fuels.
The film was shown at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and became part of public debate about whether nuclear power should be included in clean-energy strategies. Its argument is not that nuclear plants have no risks; rather, it compares those risks with pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions, and the effects of fossil-fuel use.
The title alludes to Pandora’s box, but the documentary is not an adaptation of the Greek myth. It uses the mythic phrase as a metaphor for a controversial technology whose consequences are widely debated.