Okay, I just made that up. There isn't one. I watched The CHINA Syndrome...well, I guess at this hour it was LAST night right now. Great film from 1979 that holds up amazingly well. Jane Fonda, Jack Lemon, Michael Douglas. You probably know the story. A female TV news reporter given fluff stories stumbles onto a horrifying mishap at a nuclear power plant (the fictional Ventana nuclear power plant). Her videographer captures the accident when he should not have been filming, and the story unfolds from there. You can read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome
The gist of the mishap was a welding flaw, a small part was not maintained, a pool of leaking radioactive water, a cover-up. There were a couple of glitches with gages, and without fast work, the mighty plant nearly explodes, which would have left a glowing, ticking ember of a large swath of California. The film was released 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
We in Los Osos have just concluded the fight over a rate increase this past Tuesday, and comments about that are still bubbling along on Nextdoor. Yes, there is anger, defeat, panic, all that. In that frame of emotional intensity on a rate increase to maintain our sewer plant, I ran across this article on a shuttered nuclear power plant, San Onofre, that had a sewage spill due to a worn part and a lack of maintenance. I guess that is what we are trying to avoid in raising the rates to have enough money to do maintenance and replace worn out parts or machinery.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/story/2020-04-13/san-onofre-sewage-spill-linked-to-blocked-line-worn-out-pump-switch
Fortunately the only blow-ups around here were not radioactive. Nor, with the rate increase, are they likely to be a sewage spill either.
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