It is one of the reel world's uncomfortable ironies that A Question of Power appears in its feature length version just after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, which makes this videotape on nuclear power in California not only timely, but painfully prophetic. In the documentary, seven years in the making by director David L. Brown and a team of filmmakers, the feeling that "it is only a matter of time" for a Diablo Canyon plant meltdown is expressed by those who live in the community and nuclear industry experts alike. A Question of Power confirms some of our worst fears; yet, as an informative and lively study of the anti-nuclear movement in California, its tenor is one of documented faith in the power of grassroots political protest and action. Brown integrates a concise history of the movement--told in interviews, extensive footage of civil disobedience, and narration by Peter Coyote--with that of the Diablo Canyon plant; investigative reporting into its flaws and the dubious activities of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is interspersed with facts about nuclear reactor safety, nuclear waste, evacuation planning and nuclear economics. A Question of Power was shot on film and edited on videotape; it will be projected on a state-of-the-art Sony video projector from General Electronics Services, Inc., Berkeley.