On a Sunday afternoon in December 2004,1 visited with my sister and brother-in-law. Bruce has a Ph.D. in solid-state physics and has spent most of his career as an instructor and chairman of the electrical engineering department at the University of Nevada at Reno. "What are we going to do to keep busy when we retire?" I said. "What is one of the single most important things mankind needs?"Our answer: nuclear energy. How could we promote to average citizens the advantages of nuclear power? Our answer: a grassroots effort. "We should get Roger to come down and do a presentation about nuclear energy and nuclear waste storage for an IEEE seminar," I said.
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