“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.”
APR 28, 2024
A view of a single nuclear reactor power plant . . .
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Sunday, (04/28/2024)
There are several better-than-usual good media stories in the “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA, so please take the time to review the categorized links. There are no news stories in the ‘Nuclear Power Emergencies’ category. Following is a draft of Chapter 3 of the fictional novel I am writing that will soon begin expanding into the root of the story — that nuclear power is virtually as dangerous to human and other life as nuclear war. ~llaw
El Nuclear Diablo
(Chapter 3)
(A novel by Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft)
(Review of Chapter 2 (Unedited Draft)
Albert Williams is questioned about his nuclear lab and his operation at the Pathfinder ranch in Wyoming on the flight from Vancouver Island to San Francisco by the two military generals where he selects two of his best employees at his Stanford lab employees to accompany himself and the small military group to Casper, Wyoming, where they will abandon their military Boeing 737, turning it over to two newly assigned military pilots, and transfer to a Gulfstream jet owned by Albert Williams where the plane and Williams’ personal pilots will be waiting in a hangar at the secured municipal airport there.)
Chapter 3 (unedited draft)
Shortly after we are in the air heading due east, Sabrisse sits down in the seat next to me. She smiles at me, her pretty face filled with warmth and her dark eyes reflect her sparkling spirit. She wants to begin her biographical sketch of me on a more personal level than the prior information she has scraped up online about me.
“Where were you born?”, she asks. “I already know when, so you don’t need to mention the date.” Her smile widens a little, showing her even white teeth for an instant, then looks down at her pen and notebook.
“I was born in Wheatland, Wyoming, not too far from where we are going,” I respond. “But I grew up living in some 16 communities in just Wyoming, and my father was moved to Tensleep, Wyoming, before I ever knew there were towns on planet Earth. He was a game warden and game wardens were relocated every three or four years to different communities in the state so that friendships with the residents never got too close.”
“Wow,” she says. “So how did you end up becoming educated the way you were, and ending up being a nuclear scientist owning a nuclear testing lab instead of becoming a Wyoming cowboy?” She looked into my eyes with a wide smile.
“Well, it so happened that I was good in math and science when I started high school in a town called Sheridan in northern Wyoming. And Albert Einstein was my idol, and I kind of followed him and another genius named Tesla. Eventually I got a baseball scholarship to Stanford and never left the western part of the country and became seriously interested in the work of the Livermore Labs and their experiments in nuclear fusion, although I never worked for or with the man, but met him in a few of our travels here and there a few times. Instead, I went my own way, providing engineering, construction, instrumentation, and equipment for refining various grades and applications for nuclear fuel until I was able to buy up the Pathfinder Ranch as a place where I could live every part of my professional and recreational life back in Wyoming and live a wild and free life and still do my uranium thing, which was, as I just said, providing ways, means, and methods to convert uranium into nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors as well as, I’m sorry to say these days, nuclear weapons.”
Sabrisse nodded, no doubt mentally acknowledging some of what she already knew about me. “But you’ve still spent most of your life living in Wyoming. . .” she said, more of a statement than a question.
“I still spent, or did up until now, much of my time at my place near Stanford – mostly educating newcomers and experimenting with various kinds of nuclear reactors and their reactions, especially as controlling the stuff’s operational heat functions and its waste products and safety issues relative to humans and other life. I reckon that’s why I’m on this airplane right now.”
“I think I get that,” Sabrisse said, her voice soft—little more than a murmur. “If it’s okay with you, I’d like to visit for a while with the two employees you brought along. And then I’ll have a few more questions for you.”
“Sure,” I said as she got up and stepped into the aisle already on her way back to the two young employees I’d selected to join us on this mission, which was turning out to be somewhat different than I’d originally thought. Something had changed that I didn’t know about. In less than a minute, Marcus Aurilio slid into the seat Sabrisse had just vacated.
“Okay, Albert,” he said, “let me give you a few more surprises about this change of plans for you. I’m sure you are curious. But first I want to tell you what is going on at the moment. This airplane is on the way to Casper, where we will land at the closed Natrona County airport where two military pilots will turn this airplane around and depart immediately on their way back to Juneau where we originally headed because that’s where we expected to find you and where a part of the mission will continue. The present pilots and our assembled crew will remain with us. We want to keep all expectations, except for the few who know better, just the way it was originally planned. They will arrive in Juneau days ahead of the sailboats your friends are on, but they will be informed of your whereabouts as soon as they arrive in Juneau.
“One of your two Gulf Stream private jets is waiting for us in a hanger in Casper, flown by your pilots, Mariah Windis and Davey Jones, who will fly us to your personal airport at your Pathfinder Ranch. Thus it is, that no one will know of our or your own location beyond our people and those of yours already at the ranch. Those outside this last-minute organization loop will still believe you and the rest of us will work from Juneau for reasons you will learn later. By the way Sabrisse Horvat is also a pilot with astronaut training and background.
I had broken into a cold sweat as the general had passed this information along to me. Yet I was also amazed and curious with the timing and speed that this change of plans had been arranged and managed. Of course it was all a mystery to me, and I had no idea what had precipitated this alteration, and that lack of information was part of my anxiety. “Can you tell me why this sudden change of plans happened?”, I asked.
“Not specifically, Albert, but it has to do with communications that apparently only your arrays and capability can handle for all that needs to be done . . . and it needs to remain unknown beyond those of us who need to know.”
“Well, so long as the effort, whatever it is, saves us, and life in general, from extinction, you’ll have all the support and help I have to offer.”
“That’s precisely why we’re sitting next to each other on this airplane, Albert”.
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Our flight took less than two hours to land in Casper at the deserted airport. We could see that vehicle entrances were chained off with police vehicles also blocking the main entrances to the terminal. We taxied to a nearby hangar along the tarmac, deplaning near the hangar entrance. Inside were the two replacement pilots along with Mariah and Davey who rushed to the door to greet us as we entered, but there were no introductions, handshakes, hugs, or other acknowledgements except a warm smile of greeting to me from Mariah. The military pilots, without more than a nod to the others opened the hangar airplane door and promptly made their way outside to the idling 737, climbed the stairway, and disappeared into the cockpit, obviously well aware of their assignment. In seconds the Boeing jet was on the runway positioned for takeoff. Mariah led the rest of us to the awaiting Gulfstream and we all ascended the stairway into the cabin as Marah and Davey entered the cockpit. Within minutes they had exited the hangar and taxied to the runway apron, ready to take off right behind the 737. We all watched as it accelerated down the runway into a northwest breeze. We followed a minute later, circling back to the south, on our way to the Pathfinder ranch. I felt a strange kind of elation to be on my way there, but had no idea why, simply assuming that I would soon be informed and advised.
“Wow, well that went well,” Sabrisse said, smiling as she slipped into the seat next to me. “Mariah is a beautiful woman and much younger than I thought. How long have you known her, Albert?”
“Perhaps a decade,” I said, thinking about the question. “I met her in Grand Junction, Colorado, along with Kj and her friend, Rachel, both environmental lawyers who you will be meeting when we arrive at Pathfinder. She has been my pilot and companion for at least that long, maybe longer. We’ve been all over the world together, and Davey has been with us for several years also.”
“I know you have a large team of experts in many environmental and nuclear related fields, plus your humanitarian and communications operations, both in California and Wyoming, and I’m sure I’ll get to know more about them all very soon.”
“Our metal will be more than tested now, Sabrisse, that’s for sure, but we have long expected this day would come, but had hoped it wouldn’t. The first thing we have to get done is to deal with finding a massive and effective way to stop radiation from descending upon us. The process is sometimes called radiological environmental remediation. We have some knowledge and ideas that of course we’ve never had a chance to test more than on a small scale and here we are faced with at least a huge local one here in the United States and surrounds that’s the real thing. This Diablo Canyon accident, if that’s what it was, should never have happened had we never used this stuff to try to make us warm and comfortable in the first place. But, still, there may be a way to isolate the major spread of radiation from the west coast across the country, southern Canada and northern Mexico. It has to do with air contamination prevention. But our theories have never been adequately tested, as I just said.”
“Have you really been to the moon?”, Sabrisse asked bluntly, matter of factly.
“I have,” I said, but I can’t talk about it. You will learn a lot very quickly in the next few days. All I can say is that I am thankful our government, which is, of necessity, now of absolute military rather than political control has put their faith in what I know, and how our staff may be able to help save millions upon millions of lives over the very near future. Moving this task to Pathfinder in conjunction with the effort in Juneau will give us a better chance of making it happen.”
Of course, I knew she was just doing her part-time job, and I recognized that she was very good at it.
In less than twenty minutes we would be landing at Pathfinder. Both military generals had cell phones pressed to their faces and ears, probably reporting to the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., who would already be, effectively, in charge of the country, but in a civilian role. That leadership role is to save human lives to the best of our ability. It has nothing to do with war, but everything to do with immediate control, not only of people and the way we live and behave, but of the prevailing environment including atmosphere, temperature, wind, weather anomalies, and the flow and weight of radiation fallout.
End of Chapter 3 (unedited draft)
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