James Acord

James Leroy Acord (19 October 1944 – 9 January 2011) was an artist who worked directly with radioactive materials.

His major ambition while there was to build a "nuclear Stonehenge" on a heavily contaminated area of land in the site, incorporating twelve uranium breeder-blanket assemblies.

He was profiled by Philip Schuyler for The New Yorker [4][5][6] in 1991, and was the inspiration for the character of Reever in The Book of Ash [7] by James Flint.

The extensive audio interviews Flint did with Acord in Alaska in 1998 as part of his research for the novel have now been archived and catalogued by the British Library.

[8] His sculpture, Monstrance for a Grey Horse, is installed on the Southwestern University campus in Georgetown, Texas.