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What Movie May Have Helped Shape The Energy Policy Of This Nation

The Three Mile Island accident was the notices what he believes to be an unusual
most significant in the history of the vibration during the SCRAM. Checking
American commercial nuclear power their gauges, the control room staff
generating industry. Living in finds that water levels in the reactor
Pennsylvania at the time of the core have risen to high levels; they
accident, I remember it as if it was begin opening relief valves in an effort
yesterday. It began on Wednesday,the to prevent too much water from damaging
28TH of March 1979.It took local, state the plant.
and federal officals five days to Eventually Godell takes matter into his
decide what to do with the residents of own hands and ends up dead after being
local communities. shot by members of the local swat team
But on March 16th of that same year,just after he took over the control room.
12 days before this incident at Three The implication that the company's
Mile Island in Pennsylvania, a new security people are willing to kill to
movie "The China Syndrome" had benn silence a whistleblower echoes
realised. allegations made about the death of
The China Syndrome is a thriller film Karen Silkwood, who died in a 1974
which tells the story of a reporter and automobile accident while on her way to
cameraman who discover safety coverups meet with a reporter to disclose
at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane nuclear power safety violations.
Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, In the film, a physicist says that the
Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter China Syndrome would render "an area
Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford the size of Pennsylvania" permanently
Brimley. uninhabitable. It resulted, however, in
Basically the storyline of this movie is no deaths or injuries to plant workers
about a reporter who finds what appears or members of the nearby community.
to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a However, following the event, the number
nuclear power plant. of reactors under construction declined
TV news reporter Kimberly Wells (Fonda) every year from 1980 to 1998. The TMI
and her cameraman Richard Adams accident, along with the release of
(Douglas) visit the Ventana nuclear this movie, had a psychological effect
power plant outside Los Angeles as part on the nation. Before the accident, 70
of a series of news reports on energy percent of the general public approved of
production. While viewing the control nuclear power. After it, support for
room from an observation room, the nuclear power across the country fell
plant goes through a reactor SCRAM. to about 50 percent, where it remained
Shift supervisor Jack Godell (Lemmon) for decades.




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