Meltdown Run on Route 76

In 1976 a reactor bleeds heat outside a crumbling mill town. A ragged convoy of volunteer rescuers—ex‑firemen, linemen and a CB‑obsessed mechanic—must race the fallout down an interstate now policed by authoritarian Highway Patrol “Interceptors” who enforce curfew with armored cruisers and roadblocks. Between Geiger clicks and analog gauges the crew improvises lead‑lined stretchers and juryrigged coolant rigs, trading grit and outlaw courage against a country still raw from Watergate and war.