That Night at Napa Valley

Dr. Alexander Harasthy stood surveying the wreckage around him; concrete and bent steel was all that was left of the much-hyped nuclear power plant. Years of work and research, not to mention millions of dollars, all gone to waste, laying in tatters and ruins in front of him. Several prominent physicists had worked hard to bring to fruition the clean energy project for undeveloped countries. This plant had been the culmination of their dreams and efforts. The scope of such a plant had been vast; unmitigated energy supply to a backward country – could have brought forward its development by several decades. „Bring light to those in darkness‟; he remembered a senior physicist, who had played an instrumental part in the setting up of this plant, comment. It had brought light alright; light and brimstones and the fires of hell with it