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Remember Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas in The China Syndrome driving a stake through the heart of the global nuclear industry?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Likewise, Hollywood took a principled stand against the blacklist (The Front [1976]), Nixon (All the President’s Men [1976]), and nuclear power (The China Syndrome [1979]) only when the blacklist was over, Nixon was out of power, and no one wanted to move next to a nuclear power plant.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
Originally, 1979’s China Syndrome was going to star Richard Dreyfuss, fresh from his star-making turn in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the alien epic Steven Spielberg had made for Columbia in 1977.
—Stacey Wilson Hunt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
This increased after the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, which caused no loss of life but coincided with the release of The China Syndrome, a blockbuster film featuring an utterly unrealistic nuclear meltdown.
—Armond Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2021
Douglas and Fonda starred in the 1979 thriller The China Syndrome, about a fictional accident at a nuclear power plant.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
Hot and The Apartment, as well as Best Actor for The China Syndrome.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
His other credits included The China Syndrome (1979), Melvin and Howard (1980), Revenge of the Nerds (1984), The Golden Child (1986), Dead Poets Society (1989), National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) and Postcards From the Edge (1990).
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
Crisis, the latest film from writer-director Nicholas Jarecki, yearns to be a socially conscious thriller laced with moral cynicism and taut suspense in the vein of Silkwood and The China Syndrome.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
from the notion that the molten reactor contents could hypothetically sink through the earth to reach China
First Known Use
1970, in the meaning defined above
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“China Syndrome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/China%20Syndrome. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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