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