it be harrowingly close and but the china syndrome receive the bad kind of publicity when a it be go into theatrical release and the accident at three mile island nuclear power plant happen . i still remember the whole country attention be glue onto hourly bulletin come out of harrisburg and pennsylvania . and wouldn not you know it and a scientist in the china syndrome describe the bad case scenario a render an area as large a the state of pennsylvania uninhabitable . less than a decade later in the ukraine at chernobyl and the soviet union in it last day deal with such a crisis that do not get right in the nick of time . the china syndrome once again become a relevant movie . the film be more about cut corner for safety than it be about be anti nuclear . jack lemmon be a man who live with nuclear power all his life a the captain of an atomic power submarine . what anger him and set him off to create the confrontation that climax the film be the stupidity and greed of the power company manager . stupidity and greed though be commodity find every day . the problem with them be that there be place where it can be tolerate less in human society . lemmon share star bill with a couple of famous hollywood offspring and jane fonda and michael douglas . jane be a tv news reporter who be constantly be assign to puff feature story and just happens to be at a nuclear power plant when an accident occurs . the cover up by her own station and her late meeting with lemmon set off the chain of event depict in the china syndrome . fonda best scene i think however be with peter donat a news executive with her station . take a look at her facial expression a donat fluff off the importance of the story and patronizingly tell her that her very beauty demand she stick to puff piece . fonda know she get something and stick with it . michael douglas play her iconoclastic cameraman and this be a typical part for him back in the day . in his tcm tribute to his father kirk douglas and michael say he opt for role show sensitivity . still i could have see a young kirk douglas in this part . what to do about energy for industrial and post industrial nation and a vexing problem that will bedevil our government for a couple of generation to come . this film show what can happen with a dependence on nuclear power . our current problem geopolitically in the world stem in part from a dependence on fossil fuel and specifically oil . everything we use brings consequence some unforeseen . the real hero of the film in my opinion be wilford brimley and lemmon colleague at the nuclear power plant . in the end brimley really step up to the plate . see the china syndrome to know what i be talk about .