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The Atomic States of America (2012)
Mislabeled emotional drama
This is a very slow and uninformative documentary, if you want to hear about atomic power.
This is an emotional drama about US politicians lying to the public, as is customary for them, based loosely on real events. It unfortunately tries to paint all nuclear power as being as dangerous as the kind provided by cold-war US opportunists.
Aside from the ominous music playing along with clips from poorly informed newscasts, we are asked to sit through longer segments of stories about people with cancer, after hearing that "any radiation is bad radiation." It goes tellingly unmentioned that cancer is often treated with nuclear radiation.
Actual numbers on most of the dangers related to radiation are not to be found in this film. Neither are comparisons to the dangers related to other energy sources.
In the end, this film makes me more afraid of visiting the US than of living next to a modern nuclear power plant.