Rad Decision: A Novel of Nuclear Power (Paperback)

~ James, Aach (Author)

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Product Description

Rad Decision is a technothriller about a looming crisis at an American nuclear power plant, written by an engineer with over twenty years of experience in the US nuclear industry. Within a tale of espionage and disaster, the people, politics and technology of nuclear energy come to life.

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For Steve Borden, the Fairview Nuclear Plant has provided a fascinating career, but to John Donner it represents all he wishes to destroy - and he may have the resources to do just that. But even as Donner plans, FBI Agent Liz Rezhnitsky is slowly closing in. The race is on.

Rad Decision is an entertaining and provocative science thriller in which the reader is taken inside the world of nuclear power. Longtime nuclear engineer James Aach has provided both page-turning suspense and a profile of a controversial industry that is little understood by its boosters and detractors alike.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Impressive Imprint (December 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615136575
• ISBN-13: 978-0615136578
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,886,113 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, educational and thougth provoking thriller, January 24, 2007

By	Discerning reader - See all my reviews

Very impressive and kept me up much later at night than I planned. Once you get hooked you really want to find out what happens. The storyline keeps you engaged and you learn a lot along the way.


I liked learning the technical details and the amount presented was easliy understandable and sufficient for me. The axiom for an author to write about what he knows well has been followed in the technical field and setting of the story.

I learned from the main plot and case study comments something that I have been applying at work. In most disaster scenarios, it is not an initial catastrophic event that predetermines the outcome but rather how the people involved react - whether they make hasty, poor decisions for a "quick fix" or calmly think and follow prethought out solutions or find innovative new solutions after examining and weighing all the information. You will have to read the book to the end to find out what happens!!

Please don't be insulted but it would make an excellent movie.

As to the underlying theme, the whole world's appetite for power is growing incredibly and it will be difficult to imagine everyone on earth is going to be able to live like Americans have in the past. I am currently living in Taiwan (a long way from my birthplace in the real South Bend, IN) which uses nuclear power and can see across the strait that China's energy "needs" are going to take a lot of resources and increased risk to the environment no matter how that power is generated.

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy a techno-thriller and learn, May 1, 2007

By	Harlan A. Bemis "heretic" (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Rad Decision is a great book for techno-thriller fans and also for those of us who enjoy learning as we read. The story is an entertaining spy story about a Russian mole who has been in place in the USA for about ten years. He trained to be an operator in a nuclear power plant and has worked in a power plant for most of his time in the USA. In the story he is activated and told to destroy the plant he is working in. The book goes into detail on how he devises a plan and finally destroyes the Nuclear Reactor.

This is highly technical material for the lay reader and so the author builds up to this by describing in fascinating detail and an entertaining teaching style with diagrams and charts how a nuclear reactor works.

I hope that Jim Aach's will publish another work.