Charles Frenzel

“So, we share mutual culpabilities,” Costanza commented dryly.
Adams returned to his point, “Our sources tell us that the pouring schedules in the concrete foundations at the Chernobyl site are faulty.”
“And this means,” she prompted.
“The critical supports under the reactor pile will probably fail within a short period of time—probably not until after the reactor is brought on line.”

For Malcolm Adams, the flight from Mobile, Alabama back to Washington, D.C. had seemed almost as long as his earlier flight from London Heathrow to the States. By now, he hoped, the replacement diesel generator would be fitted out below deck and his freshly painted yacht would be on its way from Mobile Bay to a dock he maintained not far south of New Orleans near Houma, Louisiana.