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You are standing in front of a nuclear reactor.

It is working fine, every dial is exactly where it should be. The engineers look calm. The paperwork is in order. And yet. Nuclear Seconds is a book about that and yet, the strange, slightly unsettling feeling of being close to something enormous, precise, and entirely indifferent to your intuition. Time behaves oddly here. Control is more of a suggestion than a guarantee. Reality follows rules that nobody remembered to explain to you.

This is not a physics textbook. There are no equations. No diagrams. Not even a helpful glossary at the back. What there is instead is a story, a little funny, some thrilling moments, occasionally philosophical, and honest about the fact that the gap between calculating something and understanding it is wider than most people in white coats will admit. You will not finish this book knowing how a nuclear reactor works.

You will finish it quietly wondering if you ever really understood anything at all. Which is, admittedly, a lot to get from 400-odd pages and no equations.

Nishant Kumar Sharma is a strategy professional at the intersection of nuclear power, emerging energy technologies, and large-scale infrastructure. Trained in nuclear physics and advanced strategy, he has spent his career navigating the complex terrain where science meets policy from energy transition planning to high-stakes decision-making in critical systems. Nuclear Seconds is his debut novel and it shows exactly why someone with his background should write fiction. Drawing on years of immersion in the world of advanced reactors, systems thinking, and the quiet tension of institutional power, he brings an authenticity to the page that most thriller writers simply cannot fake. When the reactor alarms in his story, you believe it.He writes at the edge where technical truth becomes human drama