The China Syndrome – James BRIDGES – 11:40 (United States)
Natural habitat, Paradoxes and crises #2
Lycée Bayen
Kimberly Wells, a television news reporter, Richard Adams, her cameraman, are witness to an accident in a power plant. While Jack Godell tries to contain the potential disaster, the situation is secretly filmed by Richard Adams, which then leads to a conflict of corporate forces and a climax that is nearly unbearable.
After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area. Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, or who have moved back. Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in "their" zone, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity.
Grand Central – Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI – 16:45 (France)
Natural habitat, Paradoxes and crises #2
Lycée Bayen
After a succession of odd jobs, he’s taken on at a nuclear power plant. There, amongst the reactors and their high doses of radioactivity, he finally finds what he’s been looking for: money, a team, a family. But the team also includes Karole, Toni’s wife, with whom he falls in love. Forbidden love and radiation slowly contaminate Gary. Each day is menacing.
Every day, the world over, large amounts of radioactive waste are placed in interim storages. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock, a huge system of underground tunnels that must last hundred thousand years. How is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? Which languages and signs will they understand? Experts strive to find solutions to this crucial problem.
After a Hong Kong nuclear plant and the Mercantile Trade Exchange in Chicago are hacked by unknown perpetrators, a federal agent proposes that the FBI work with China to find the cyber-criminals. The leader of the Chinese team insists that convicted hacker Nick Hathaway be released from prison to help with the investigation. As Nick and his comrades chase their quarry, it becomes evident that the hackers have a sinister motive for their actions.
