A news report about the anti-nuclear protest movement, followed by a short conversation with actor and producer Michael Douglas about his film The China Syndrome, which dramatized a nuclear meltdown. Produced for the live documentary Nuclear Power: The Public Reaction.
“I can see war. I cannot see radiation. I look around one day and I am dead.” —Dick Gregory, 1979 Illinois is a state of nuclear renown. The first ever atomic chain reaction took place at the University of Chicago in 1942. In 1960 the nation’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant, Dresden Generating Station, opened in northern Illinois. Today, Illinois continues to be the number one nuclear power producer in the U.S. and a nexus of the debate around […]