Author Gwyneth Cravens has published five novels and worked as a fiction editor at The New Yorker. She had been an antinuclear activist, opposed to the use of nuclear energy until she began seriously researching it. The result eventually became the nonfiction book "Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy" (Knopf, 2007). With Sandia Laboratories nuclear expert Richard (Rip) Anderson and his wife Marcia Fernandez as her guides, Cravens embarked on a nuclear journey that took her to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Yucca Mountain, a uranium mine, and other sites and transformed her from an anti-nuclear protester into a nuclear proponent who now hopes to change the minds of others.
Cravens, who grew up in Albuquerque in the shadow of the atomic bomb, was one of the "stars" of the 2013 documentary film "Pandora's Promise," which spotlighted prominent environmentalists who were once fervently opposed to nuclear power but now support it. Cravens talks about the myths and misconceptions surrounding nuclear power, and why the world needs more reactors.
