In a way, you can think of it as a nuclear battery. It's very rugged and has no moving parts.

That's why the ceramic form of the plutonium is an important safety feature. The ceramic fractures into chunks and large particles, which are not breathable and can be cleaned up.

Once you get a probability of an accident occurring, the question is what's the impact to people? That's where the risk is low.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.