It is relatively common for a movie to replicate something that happened in real life, but when the tables are turned it does mean that things take on a rather scary appearance.
Take a movie by the name of ‘The China Syndrome’ as the perfect example. It was a movie that focused on a nuclear reactor which went into a meltdown thanks to a pressure release valve that was stuck open and a problem with a sensor being faulty. At first, that doesn’t sound as if it could be anything other than a cool movie, but you would be wrong.
Well, that is until you discover that the movie was released 12 days before the 3 Mile Island disaster. Why is that important? Simply because that particular meltdown ended up being caused by the exact same problem that was at the heart of the movie, so in this instance real life did indeed copy fiction.