The Dorset disaster
By: Alexander Sidar III.
Publisher: Stonesong Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
First sentence: A thick blanket of blue-gray clouds hung close over the southern Connecticut hills: the  midafternoon air was a muggy, stifling 79o and the winds drifted out of the northeast at ten miles an hour when Carl Griffin left home at 3 p.m. on Friday, September 19,1980, to go on duty at 4:00 as senior operator of the dorset Pilgrim nuclear power plant.
Description: The Dorset Disaster is a highly authentic chronologyof a runaway nuclear  accident and the first days of its horrifying consequences.  A "factional"  novel  set in the rustic hills of Dorset, Connecticut it  is a frightening but quite realistic assessment of the risks we take.  The narrative is based on the best scientific projections available and interviews and documents from numerous experts. including the staff of the Nucler Regulatory commission and the Union of Concerned Scientists.  The story is complete with photographs, specially commissioned maps, diagrams and news articles.