Two Years Later, Most Systems Go!

SAMUEL McCRACKEN

Working on a review of Jane Fonda’s The China Syndrome literally on the day of the accident at Three Mile Island, your correspondent was moved to make two contingent predictions. The first was that, in the real world, an accident approximating the first one shown in the film, far from being covered up by a media-industry cabal would be publicized to the skies. The second was that a serious nuclear power accident would lead to widespread and probably successful calls to shut down nuclear power.

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SAMUEL McCRACKEN

Working on a review of Jane Fonda’s The China Syndrome literally on the day of the accident at Three Mile Island, your correspondent was moved to make two contingent predictions. The first was that, in the real world, an accident approximating the first one shown in the film, far from being covered up by a media-industry cabal would be publicized to the skies. The second was that a serious nuclear power accident would lead to widespread and probably successful calls to shut down nuclear power.