Factual error: After the turbine trip, Godell says that the reactor water level was "almost up to the steam lines." The fictional Ventana nuclear plant is described as being a pressurized reactor plant and could not possibly have such a problem.
The China Syndrome (1979)
Plot summary
Directed by: James Bridges
Starring: Michael Douglas, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Peter Donat, James Hampton, Scott Brady
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
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Jack Godell: I know the vibration was not normal.
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