Atomic Mouse — Astrid Julian

Long before he found the murdered European environmentalists in a Polish forest, freelance journalist Thierry Kaplan's interest in saving the environment took him to Florence, KY where he tried to talk a young graduate student afflicted with radiation poisoning into going public with what she discovered about the recycling of radioactive metals.

If you liked this short story, you can read more about journalist Thierry Kaplan in The Professional Friend by Astrid Julian.