Higher power : an American town's story of faith, hope, and nuclear energy

9781572843233

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Includes index

Excerpt from president Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for peace" speech
Despair
Peripatetic pastor
Tested by plague and in-laws
Evangelism
New direction
The man behind the curtain
America
An annoying world fair
Chicago
Holy war
A holy city
Dowie's reign and fall
Voliva turmoil
Nuclear power comes to town
Nuclear flagship rises, stumbles
Sex, drugs, and alcohol
The invitation
Radiation training
Meeting my nuclear family
The real thing
How to open a nuclear reactor--very carefully
The nuclear reporter
Underwater mechanics
The nuclear crusader
The accident
Solving a radioactive mystery
Zion reaction
Nuclear women
Nuclear guards
Simulating stimulations
Nrc regulators
Farewell reactor
The control room
Waking a sleeping nuclear reactor
End of welcome
Quality warnings
Midlife crisis
A rogue station's final straw
A naval commander weighs in at Zion
Shoes on shiloh
Radioactive waste city
How green is my greenfield?
A Zion walkabout
Pioneering commercial nuclear power
Nuclear reactors of the future
Two prestigious universities view nuclear
A conspicuous failure
Life after nuclear power
Energy in a time of plague
Three Mile Island and me

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