SummaryThe protagonist in Uneeda is a twenty-four-year-old chemical engineer, Mel Harrison who worked on Erden's first molten salt thorium reactor project. The Uneeda nuclear reactor is the first attempt to address the planet's ocean troubles. The carbon dioxide from two centuries of burning fossil fuel to power the flourishing global Zircon Empire had dangerously depleted the ocean's nature alkalinity and threatened the ocean's food chain. To reverse the acidification caused by excessive atmospheric carbon dioxide, the Zircon Emperor and parliament ordered the closure of all fossil fuel powerplants within ten years. The royal decreed requires all new powerplants in the empire to use hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, or nuclear energy.The majority of the empire's citizens agree the emperor's command was necessary. As expected, the coal and gas interest whose lively hood and investment the decreed would make worthless organized campaigns to prevent closure of their fossil fuel plants while alarming the public about the dangers of nuclear power, its waste and radiation. When scare tactics did not haul the Uneeda reactor, sabotage and murder were employed by the plant's opponents.

How all that turned out is Mel's story.