Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Heinz Hora -- Preface Why a "Black Swan"? -- Living at the Center of the Energy Crisis -- Timeline and Apology -- Chapter 1 Early Days and Searching for a Starting Path -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Burnable Poison Control for Nuclear Submarine Reactors -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Nuclear Pulse Propagation and Fission Reactor Kinetics -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Nuclear Pumped Laser (NPL) Research -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Direct Electron Beam Pumped Laser -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 Advanced Lasers -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Alpha Particle Effects in Thermonuclear Fusion Devices -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Alternate Fusion Concepts -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Advanced Fuel Fusion and Direct Energy Conversion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Fusion Propulsion and Space Colonization -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Nuclear Batteries -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 Computation and Theory -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17 Nuclear Power Plant Safety and the Illinois Low-Level Waste Site -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Teaching, Education, and University Administration -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Creation of a Small Company, NPL Associates, Inc. -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Where Am I in the Search? What Have I Found? -- Chapter 21 Concluding Comments -- Appendix Timeline of Events -- Afterword -- Index.