The China Syndrome The China Syndrome The China Syndrome is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook. It tells the story of a television reporter and her cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, with Douglas also serving as the film's producer. The cast also features Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley. "China syndrome" is a fanciful term—not intended to be taken literally—that describes a fictional result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor
Nuclear power U.S. Army experimental nuclear power reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho, derived from the Borax Boiling water reactor(BWR) design, it first achieving operational criticality/connection to the grid in 1958. In 1961 During a manual removal of a control rod, it underwent a steam explosion and meltdown, which killed its three operators. The event was eventually rated at 4 on the seven-level INES scale. The 's liquid metal cooled reactor accident in 1968 resulted in 9 fatalities and 83 other injuries. The total global installed nuclear capacity initially rose relatively quickly, rising from less than 1 gigawatt