In the 2014 film Pandora’s Promise, what subject does director Robert Stone investigate?

In the 2014 film Pandora’s Promise, director Robert Stone investigates nuclear energy.

Pandora’s Promise is a documentary about the debate surrounding nuclear power and its possible role in addressing environmental and energy problems. The film follows environmentalists and other commentators who reconsider their earlier opposition to nuclear energy. Its argument is that nuclear power should be evaluated as a low-carbon energy source rather than treated only as a technological danger.

The documentary’s title uses the Pandora myth as a metaphor for opening something feared and then examining what remains inside. It does not retell the ancient Greek story as a historical drama.

The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013, with a 2014 release also associated with its distribution. Its subject is nuclear energy, not the Pandora myth itself.