The Prometheus Crisis , Thomas N Scotia 1975 HC In northern California, Project Prometheus, a five billion dollar nuclear power station, the largest in the world has reached the final critical stages of thermal equilibrium. Momentarily, the President of the Unitized States is going to announce to the nation that Prometheus has been activated and that this country has the solution to the energy crisis within its grasp. But deep within the reactor's central core, the factor of human error sparks that one chance in 300,00,00: Prometheus unleashes a hideous nuclear holocaust that no one can reverse.