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The China Syndrome

    The China Syndrome is about a nuclear power plant in Los Angeles,
California. The Ventanna Nuclear Power Plant came close to the China Syndrome! A
Channel 3 news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her camera man, Richard Adams,
captured an accident on film at the nuclear power plant that would have caused
the China Syndrome. The China Syndrome could have killed off a place about the
size of Pennsylvania. One of the head operators of the company, Jack Godell,
talked to Kimberly Wells at a company gathering. Jack told Kimberly that there
was just a turbine trip. Kimberly and her camera man went to Jack Godell's house
and confronted him about the evidence. The camera man asked Jack to speak
publicly about the accident. On the way to a Nuclear Power convention there was
a car following Jack. Jack went to the Ventanna Nuclear Power Plant to hide from
the people following him. After arriving, Jack went to the control room to find
that the people running the plant were making a big mistake. He saw the people
raising the power back up to 100%. He tried to explain that there could be
another accident if they raised the power all the way because of a problem with
the pumps. The people didn't believe Jack and were starting to raise the power
up again. When Jack saw what they were doing he grabbed the security officer's
gun and forced everyone out of the control room. After he locked the door he
lowered the power down to 75% so the pumps wouldn't br...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 03-09-07 5:06pm
Category: Science
Words: 462
Pages: 1.85