Lester del Rey · 1956 · Novel
Setting: contemporary (atomic plant)
At the great atomic plant in Kimberly, a congressional committee makes a surprise inspection raising the level of the men's tension even higher than it has been. By midday there have already been minor accidents but in the giant nuclear converters which are at the heart of the project work goes on at desperate speed. Until converter Number four fails disastrously. Jorgenson, the supervisor of the technical team and his crew had been running through a new and unstable isotope when the walls of the reactor gave way.
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Tags: Classic LiteratureFictionScience Fiction & FantasyScience fictionAmerican Science fiction
isfdb_id: 22335
openlibrary_id: OL6552309W
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