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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
[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
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Movie Summary
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
