在这部核能大灾变恐怖片中,小镇附近有一间核能电厂,泰勒博士发现电厂附近的森林中有辐射反应,向库格博士报告,库格叫他不要多管闲事,否则就检举他在电厂喝酒,这是违反规定的行为,会遭到解雇的处分。苏珊和娇丝搭同一班巴士,娇丝是要回到小镇,而苏珊是路过小镇要去西雅图探望男朋友,在杰克小站休息站,苏珊被放鸽子,搭便车遇到恶司机要强暴她,她躲入森林中,被不明物体杀害,娇丝和男友麦到森林中散步,发现苏珊的尸体,向警长报案,回到原现场尸体居然失踪,原来是核电厂接到警长的通知将尸体带回去化验,杰克也不幸遇害···
Evil nuclear power plant manager is dumping nuclear waste in a forest. People start getting killed. Drunken PhD in power plant starts tracking radiation in the forest. More people killed. Newspaper reporter and local boy and girl start investigating. Still more people killed. Townspeople try to remove nuclear waste. Yet more people killed. EPA cleans up the mess with bulldozers.