China syndrome

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Washington state’s China Syndrome has nothing in common with the 1979 disaster film involving a nuclear-plant meltdown, although nukes could come into play.

From Seattle Times

It has caused public jitters for decades, since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the release of a popular movie, “The China Syndrome.”

From Los Angeles Times

The public perception that nuclear is a particularly dangerous way to provide carbon-free, reliable energy has been fueled both by the media’s tendency to sensationalize any nuclear accident and by popular culture such as the disaster movie “The China Syndrome,” premised on the absurd notion that a nuclear meltdown could cause reactor components to melt through the entire earth all the way to China.

From Washington Post

Stanley Kubrick’s satirical “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”— itself reviled at the time by some critics — and the “The China Syndrome” shaped attitudes about nuclear power and war.

From New York Times

So did pop culture, such as 1979’s movie “The China Syndrome” and the green-oozing, rat-infested nuclear station on “The Simpsons.”

From Seattle Times