A Power in the Land — Stuart Prebble

Deep in the heart of the Dounscraig nuclear reprocessing plant, a tremor begins. To scientist Dr Graham Smedley, it is another alarming sign - of problems he cannot trace in top-secret Project Nine Hundred.
Something very unusual is going on in the remote Cumbrian village of Winderwath near the plant. A conspiracy of silence is broken when journalist Anthony Shilvers comes to the village and stumbles on the biggest story of his life...