As many of you know, one of the books I wrote (before 9/11) is FALLOUT. It is about a Navy pilot who starts his own private TOPGUN school at Tonopah, Nevada. Several of the students in the first class are Pakistani, and have more in mind than learning to fly better. They plan on attacking a nuclear power (San Onofre in San Diego County) from the air. In researching that book, I learned a lot about nuclear plants, and storage of nuclear waste (almost all of it is stored outside the reinforced “domes” in pools of water in not very strong buildings (like the ones leaking in Japan)). There is much more to say on the subject, but for now, Logan Jenkins of the San Diego Union-Tribune is asking what many are asking–how safe are US reactors near fault lines? In my opinion, not very. He mentions FALLOUT. See his column here .
