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** A second Oh Crap moment occurs when Jack realizes that the X-ray pictures of the pump welds were falsified during construction.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Think the corporation you work for doesn't like how you're digging into how the nuclear plant was built and how the quarterly safety checks were forged? Wondering about that car behind you on the highway carrying guys who could take on the Steelers' defensive front? Terrified that your own co-workers - and even your best friend Wilford Brimley! - are talking about bringing the reactor [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|back online at full power]]? Welcome to Jack's world!

* [[The Seventies]]

* [[Think of the Children]]: The anti-nukes, during the safety hearing for the power plant, hold up pictures of their children and read out their names.

* [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever]]: Terrifyingly averted during the first accident: everything they talk about happening could have been disastrous to say the least. Subverted when Richard is able to sneak an 'expert' in to see the film, to have the expert comment on what he thinks happened: said expert talks in [[Techno Babble]] instead, and also [[Title Drop|Title Drops]] the movie.