About Barbara Billig
“I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis at age nineteen with a degree in biology and chemistry. After moving to southern California and living in the area of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, I became concerned that some event might occur, such as an earthquake. This could cause the control rods in the nuclear plant to become frozen, preventing them from being lowered to absorb atoms and control the nuclear reaction. Because of this, I felt the public should be alerted to the dangers of nuclear power and how it could affect them in an accident. The Nuclear Catastrophe was written and published before the 3 Mile Island reactor in New York had happened. Years later, when the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdowns occurred, I republished the novel in an updated version. Those who had disparaged the idea of a major accident happening were now reminded that they had been warned.
Because I still saw the denial of the severity of the Fukushima accident and the cover-up of the events, #Betrayal was written. This novel received an award for best first chapter from Up Authors.
Finally, in an effort to bring attention to the problem of terrorism and the vulnerability of nuclear plants, Nuclear Road Trip – Onward to Destruction was conceived. Released in December of 2014, this fiction novel is told from the perspective of a group of scientists on an inspection trip in the Chicago area. They have a fun adventure until ISIS targets a nuclear waste disposal site. The plot is to far exceed the 9/11 disaster.”
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