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The movie is ... well-acted, well-crafted, scary as hell. The events leading up to the "accident" in The China Syndrome are indeed based on actual occurrences at nuclear plants. Even the most unlikely mishap (a stuck needle on a graph causing engineers to misread a crucial water level) really happened at the Dresden plant outside Chicago. And ...
The film's plot is about an engineer badly injured in an accident caused by an earthquake. He knows that the nuclear waste will poison the groundwater and wants to warn the public. The movie features many cast members from Mad Max , among them Mel Gibson as a bearded mechanic, in an uncredited cameo. [ 2 ]
The Peacemaker (1997) – a U.S. Army colonel and a civilian nuclear expert supervising him must track down a stolen Russian nuclear weapon before it is used by terrorists. Planet of the Apes (1968) – this, and two of its sequels depict Earth after being destroyed in a nuclear war, while two middle sequels depict Earth before such a war.
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
Films about nuclear accidents and incidents. Events that have led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the nuclear facility. Examples include lethal effects to individuals, large radioactivity release to the environment, reactor core melt.
Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
They come across an American OSS agent suffering from horrific burn wounds, and learn that the Nazis are developing a nuclear bomb which will enable them to turn the tide of war and achieve victory. Nearing death, the OSS agent asks the soldiers to complete his mission: extract Dr. Luca Gruenewald, the lead scientist of the research program ...
A character in the film claims that a glass of water could power Chicago for weeks, but no clear explanation is ever given as to whether this is by simply burning hydrogen released by highly efficient means or through nuclear processes. The film's title is also misleading, since "chain reaction" is related to nuclear fission, not fusion. [11]