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Agustina 2023-09-08 17:25:03
The title China Syndrome has nothing to do with China, it's just American slang. The film is like a wonderful novel, the more exciting it...
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Nedra 2023-09-03 23:11:34
Movies in which ordinary small employees offend big companies are hunted down. The style in the 1970s is not obvious, and there is a sense of 80. McDonnell did not see that the beard of the wolf was McDonnell. Like a short commentary, reporters who feel that random speculation, digging gimmicks, and fear that the world will not be chaotic are the major sources of social chaos. It is a pity that the media's literary and artistic works always love to portray them into a positive and just image:...
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Kelvin 2023-08-30 02:25:18
His friend dared to say the truth that he's definitely a...
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Tamara 2023-08-23 04:42:26
Starting from a well-photographed accident, to showing radical anti-nuclearists and unscrupulous reporters (personal feeling), the film seems to have taken a very far-sighted route. Then it fell back to the scene of a small person against a big company. Why do big companies have to be villains? Emotional people and the reporters who instigated them are actually more devastating. But the ending is really...
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Dandre 2023-07-25 22:07:52
The stories, plots, topics, and acting skills are all complete, and they even have such a gimmicky name. In terms of science and technology, there should be a lot of...
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Cassandra 2023-06-24 09:28:16
No nonsense, full of tension. The final turnaround took me aback. The contempt and even cover-up of potential safety hazards in the power plant has made me feel a lot lately... An ignorant staff member like Spindler is actually no less harmful than a greedy high-level...
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Stephany 2023-06-16 17:03:13
Movies are more about news, digging out hidden real thoughts, and it is difficult to reach conclusions about nuclear power. The ending came to an abrupt end, though cruel, but full of...
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Francisca 2023-05-29 09:20:40
Documentary, heroes can also be so plain. Contrast with The Life of David...
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Chanelle 2023-05-09 16:21:09
The plot is compact and smooth, the performances of the male and female protagonists are wonderful, and the two heavyweight themes of nuclear energy safety and media conscience are strongly integrated and both achieved in-depth...
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Dashawn 2023-04-25 02:07:45
Today, only a handful of people know what it means... Soon you will...
The China Syndrome Comments
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Richard Adams: I showed the film to a nuclear engineer. You almost uncovered the core, Mr. Godell.
Kimberly Wells: Mr. Godell, you lied to me last night. We're not going to leave here until you tell us what happened at the plant.
Jack Godell: So some anti-nuclear nut tells you we almost uncovered the core? But we didn't uncover it, did we? We stopped it in time for one simple reason and I told you that! The system works, goddamn it! The system works! That's not the problem!
[he turns away]
Richard Adams: If that's not the problem, then what the hell is?
Jack Godell: [wiping sweat from his forehead] I love that plant. It's my whole life.
Kimberly Wells: What is the problem?
Jack Godell: The shudder... The damn shudder. The vibration I felt during the turbine trip. It bothered me. But it sure didn't bother anyone else. And while I'm checking it, I find that some idiot phonied the welding X-rays. I just can not believe a man would deliberately falsify the records of a nuclear reactor. My god!
Richard Adams: Holy shit.
Kimberly Wells: That means the plant's not safe.
Jack Godell: It means that vibration was a warning and the plant should be shut down, every one of those welds should be re-X-rayed... Of course we're talking about millions of dollars, but we don't want to talk about that. And no one will believe me. But if they ever put too much pressure on that pump, rupture those pipes...
Kimberly Wells: China Syndrome.
Jack Godell: It's possible.
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Greg Minor: [reviewing the film footage that Richard had secretly taken while at the nuclear power plant during the emergency] It looks serious. In the control room, these lights are concerned with core water level. They might have come close to exposing the core.
Dr. Lowell: If that's true, we came very close to the China Syndrome.
Kimberly Wells: The what?
Dr. Lowell: If the core is exposed for whatever reason, the fuel heats beyond core heat tolerance in a matter of minutes. Nothing can stop it. And it melts down right through the bottom of the plant, theoretically to China. But of course, as soon as it hits ground water, it blasts into the atmosphere and sends out clouds of radioactivity. The number of people killed would depend on which way the wind is blowing. Render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable, not to mention the cancer that would show up later.
