The China Syndrome (DVD)

...electricity generating plant opened in the USA on the 12th March 1979. Only 12 days later, on the 28th March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania came close to total meltdown in an accident that closely (and somewhat eerily) mirrored the scenario portrayed in the movie. Seven years later, on April 25th 1986, the unthinkable actually happened, when the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine, again closely following the plot of ...
...thousands of people and leaving the area surrounding the plant a nuclear wasteland for generations to come. ~ ~ I had been active in the anti-nuclear movement throughout the 1970’s in Scotland, and so naturally when this movie was released it was a “must see” for me. I wasn’t disappointed, and felt that the hypothetical disaster that it postulated was very lifelike and realistic. So it really came as no great surprise when it later took on real ...

the_mad_cabbie 07.03.2005 · Read full review
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...a little nagging doubt at the back of their mind – “Is this plant 100% safe?” This film works on this fear, in particular the possibility of the nuclear core overheating and causing a melt-down with an associated catastrophic radiation accident. A local film crew making an educational film about energy sources is present at a nuclear plant when an accident occurs. Although the accident is contained it raises implications about the ...
...at the plant starts his own investigation and finds some serious areas of concern with regard to the plants maintenance records. The TV crew is fronted by Kimberley Wells (Jane Fonda) with camera man Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) and they sense that more is going on than the power company is admitting to. The film builds on the relationship between Jack Godell and the film crew and the concern they all have for safety. This plot of the film keeps ...

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...Douglas. In "79 it was the movie everyone was talking about because it is based on real-life accident. Story tells about problems in nuclear plant and escapade of some powerful people. There is a journalist and camera-man who try to show the problems with machines and wrong decisions of headman and his people. Although they have control over millions of lives they think just of the money they could lost. Its breathtaking story which shows how much ...

bibisk 30.10.2008 (17.11.2008) · Read full review
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