"After being switched to the right at the top of the loop, we started around it counterclockwise. Coal trains are so heavy that they are rounted throught the loop in alternate directions, to distribute the assault on the track. In the infield to our left were five hundred acres of Campbell County, Wyoming, fifty feet deep-- the million-ton reserve known at Plant Scherer as "the pile." CBTMMHS circumscribed the pile until-- close by Plant Scherer-- it stopped at the head of the unloading trestle, which extended before it between rows of bright lights. This train had left Wyoming five days ago. Plant Scherer would burn everything in it in less than eight hours."...
"Damon Woodson, a mechanical engineer at Plant Scherer who had worked in a nuclear power plant, said, 'I never really understood nuclear until I came here.' That million-ton pile on reserve in the train loop was equivalent to one truckful of mined uranium, he said. 'The way to go is nuclear if you want to have power. To get a million BTUs, fuel oil costs nine dollars, natural gas six dollars, coal a dollar-eighty-five, nuclear fifty cents. We'll see how it all turns out."
