president obama is certainly pro-nuclear power. >> what helped shellenberger's conversion is how much the world has learned from nuclear disaster. >> after 37 mile island, after the fukushima disaster, you saw a reaction all around the world to take a second look at earthquake and tsunami risks. >> many of us in the nuclear industry have fought for some time to have nuclear acknowledged as green energy. it is a very benign source of energy generation. >> i can see people rolling their eyes saying, mabel, did you hear what he just said? >> i would encourage mabel and her partner to do some more homework on this. >> a new generation of reactors like the westinghouse ap 100, its backup system doesn't use regular source of power to cool down. >> helping mitigate the issues we had at fukushima. >> westinghouse, even the new design requires a constant flow of water to the reactor core to prevent melt-down. the next generation of reactors will make things even safer. >> why could you not divine a reactor that had no notion to release nuclear material? i set out to save the world with nuclear

david shellenberger is co-founder and co-owner of little shop of stories, children's bookstore located in decatur georgia. this year davis during serving as a juror for the national book award and the young people's literature division. so any authors out there, this is the guy you want. besides becoming a great bookstore for kids and their families little shop is most proud to own the development of the decatur book festival, marvelous festival, the nations largest independent book festival. well i am with the miami book fair, one of the nations largest. [laughter] on the same page at a communitywide family initiative. thank you both for being here. the way are we going to handle this is where going to have a little bit of a discussion. i'm going to speak to jim for a little while and then the two booksellers will talk about what they might've done with some of the money that they got then we will open it to the audience for questions and some of you who may have gotten some grants might want to tell us what you have done. then we have a big announcement at the end as well because the