Meltdown
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ISBN: 0385334001 / Publisher: Delacorte Press, November 2000
A controversial oceanographer investigates irradiated plankton, fish, and whales to uncover evidence that oceanic nuclear waste is threatening to destroy the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
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Dr. Carol Harmon has taken her environmental research vessel, the Phoenix, deep into one of the most forbidding places in the world: the ceaselessly shifting Arctic ice-scape. When two of her crew are ravaged by what appears to be radiation poisoning, Carol needs help fast - so she calls on the person she trusts most.Brock Garner is an oceanographer, a former Naval officer, and a man who has never quite stopped loving his ex-wife Carol. Answering the call from across the globe, Brock flies from one ice-bound port to the other. But by the time Garner arrives, a frightening scenario is taking shape: Deep beneath the ice, something is leaking deadly radiation. Worse yet, the greatest danger the global seas have ever faced may be only part of a bigger cataclysm. A disaster of untold proportions is looming - the world's first man-made Ice Age. A life-and-death battle is about to be unleased...not just for the Arctic, but for the very future of Earth.
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