Greg Dalton: Michael Shellenberger, movies such as the China Syndrome, starring Jack Lemmon and Jane Fonda and Silkwood, starring Cher and Meryl Streep, did more to shape public
perception about nuclear power than most environmental groups?
Given limited public knowledge
about the details of
nuclear energy and encumbered access to disaster sites, the media have disproportionate
power around the globe to shape public knowledge,
perception, and reaction to
nuclear crises, Pascale said.