When Gwyneth Cravens set out to write about nuclear energy, it was going to be an article, not a book. She was against nuclear, first of all, and did not think anyone would want to read a full book about the energy source. That was 1999.

This year, she published Power To Save The World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. In the intervening eight years, not only had Ms Cravens changed her mind about nuclear, but the US had too. “It has been amazing how quick the turnaround has been.”