The China Syndrome

Release Date:
Mar 16, 1979
MPAA Rating:
PG
Running Time:
2:02
Genre:
Drama, Thriller
Director:
James Bridges
Cast:
Jane Fonda
Jack Lemmon
Michael Douglas
Scott Brady
James Hampton
Peter Donat
Wilford Brimley
James Karen
Language:
English

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A news reporter and her cameraman are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew prevents a catastrophe, but the plant supervisor begins to suspect the plant is in violation of safety standards, and tries desperately to bring it to the attention of the public, fearing that another SCRAM incident will produce an atomic disaster.

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