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Did Dr Lapp coin the phrase "The China Syndrome"? If so, then credit should be given to him. A comment on IMBD--in regard to the film by that name produced by Michael Douglas in 1979--states that Dr Lapp did coin the phrase. If so, it may have been in an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, because I remember reading articles in the Bulletin in the early '70s about the China Syndrome dealing with the question of whether a nuclear reactor whose core was exposed would melt through the earth to China or would instead hit the water table and then explode into the atmosphere and render a large part of the earth permanently uninhabitable, as the Chernobyl reactor did.
rumjal 20:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by rumjal ( talk • contribs)

   For the record, while i don't regularly see BotAS, i've known a subscriber who surely would have spoken differently about it if it had discussions like whether it "would melt through the earth to China". I respect it as the sort of pub that might discuss how far toward the center of the earth a meltdown could progress. Imputing to it discussions that took comic-book physics seriously is an intellectual crime; on the positive side, it's also kinda like not noticing that you sat down in a pool of your murder victim's blood.
-- Jerzy• t 23:33, 28 April 2014 (UTC) reply