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

The Three Mile Island accident was the mostduring the SCRAM. Checking their gauges,
significant in the history of the Americanthe control room staff finds that water
commercial nuclear power generating industry.levels in the reactor core have risen to
Living in Pennsylvania at the time of thehigh levels; they begin opening relief
accident, I remember it as if it wasvalves in an effort to prevent too much
yesterday. It began on Wednesday,the 28THwater  from  damaging  the  plant.
of March 1979.It took local, state and
federal officals five days to decide whatEventually Godell takes matter into his own
to do with the residents of localhands and ends up dead after being shot by
communities.members of the local swat team after he
took  over  the  control room.
But on March 16th of that same year,just 12
days before this incident at Three MileThe implication that the company's security
Island in Pennsylvania, a new movie "Thepeople are willing to kill to silence a
China  Syndrome" had  benn  realised.whistleblower echoes allegations made about
the death of Karen Silkwood, who died in a
The China Syndrome is a thriller film which1974 automobile accident while on her way
tells the story of a reporter and cameramanto meet with a reporter to disclose nuclear
who discover safety coverups at a nuclearpower  safety violations.
power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack
Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, JamesIn the film, a physicist says that the China
Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, andSyndrome would render "an area the size of
Wilford  Brimley.Pennsylvania" permanently uninhabitable. It
resulted, however, in no deaths or injuries
Basically the storyline of this movie isto plant workers or members of the nearby
about a reporter who finds what appears tocommunity.
be a cover-up of safety hazards at a
nuclear  power  plant.However, following the event, the number of
reactors under construction declined every
TV news reporter Kimberly Wells (Fonda) andyear from 1980 to 1998. The TMI accident,
her cameraman Richard Adams (Douglas) visitalong with the release of this movie, had a
the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Lospsychological effect on the nation. Before
Angeles as part of a series of news reportsthe accident, 70 percent of the general
on energy production. While viewing thepublic approved of nuclear power. After it,
control room from an observation room, thesupport for nuclear power across the
plant goes through a reactor SCRAM. Shiftcountry fell to about 50 percent, where it
supervisor Jack Godell (Lemmon) noticesremained for decades.
what he believes to be an unusual vibration



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