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HARRISBURG, Pa.--Engineers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant substantially shrank the potentially explosive gas bubble in the plant's reactor yesterday. The bubble, once as large as 1800 cubic feet, was reportedly reduced to 50 cubic feet...
...spokesmen for the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group was calling for an evacuation of the area surrounding the leaking Harrisburg reactor. "Some of that radioactivity may end up here, and if it does there are problems: 40 million people live between here and Harrisburg, and New York City is only 115 miles away," he said...
...anyone's going to let fraudulent radiograms be introduced at a certification hearing for their newest nuclear installation. Attempted murder, Lemmon's singlehanded seizure of the plant, with a SWAT team coming through the control-room door and colleagues purposely fouling up the reactor to distract him while Fonda stands by to put his damning evidence on TV live, all follow...
...Athens, Ala. The fire short-circuited cables controlling the primary cooling system, causing loss of some of the nuclear-core cooling water. But nothing even close to a meltdown ensued. Although one of the back-up cooling systems was also disabled, technicians used other emergency circuits to cool the reactor down long before the situation approached the critical stage...
Lemmon, as a former nuclear submarine officer caught in the utility company's middle management, does an excellent job of portraying Godell's belief in "the system" and its safety. Realizing that higher management executives have tampered with his sacred safety procedures and have perverted the reactor that he, with complete sincerity, says he loves, Lemmon's portrayal of Godell's personal struggle carries the film...