Recent Examples on the WebDouglas 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
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