Morgan tells the true story of a lost cesium-137 capsule sealed inside an apartment wall in Soviet Ukraine — and the families who died before anyone believed the wall was the killer.
The forest was freezing. The strange metal boxes they found were warm — so the three men slept beside them. The true story of the Lia incident: two abandoned strontium-90 sources, a night in the Georgian woods, and the heat that was killing them.
At nine-oh-one on a January night, a control rod came out too far. Four milliseconds later, twenty-six thousand pounds of reactor were in the ceiling. The true story of SL-1: the night shift at an Idaho desert reactor, one pull of a rod, and the fastest disaster in American nuclear history.
They were told the plant needed no inspection. Then three men carried buckets into it, and poured them through a funnel, one after another, until the uranium did what uranium does. The true story of the Tokaimura criticality, the warning nobody heeded, and the twenty hours that changed Japan's nuclear industry.