Exelon's unprofitable Quad Cities nuclear power plant failed to clear in the annual capacity auction held last week by the regional power grid PJM.

Guest: Gwyneth Cravens.

Even the skeptics can be convinced—and need to be, says novelist Gwyneth Cravens. In her book Power to Save the World, she takes an informed look at nuclear energy in order to debunk some of the myths surrounding it. Today on Focus, she'll join us to talk about her findings and her belief that nuclear energy is a completely realistic solution to global warming—possibly even a necessary one.

Guest: Edmund Storms.

Guest: Diana Preston.

In less than fifty years, what was once an open and joyous quest to learn the secrets of the atom became a sprint to develop the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. This morning on Focus we'll talk with Diana Preston about her new book Before the Fallout, which covers the period of history between the discovery of radium in 1898 and the detonation of the first atomic bomb.