Nuke-l Heads

From the 737 Max, to electrical companies burning down states, to the East Palestine derailment, we are living in an era where nobody really bothers to confirm whether or not anything works before foisting it on the world. Recurring costs for things like testing and maintenance are poisonous to growth. The way forward is to cut everything to the bone and run it for as long as possible. When disaster strikes, you get the public to cover as much of the damages as you can, and fines and lawsuit settlements are one-time expenditures, which are preferable in the long run.

This is all to say, there has never been a corporate environment less up to the task of running nuclear reactors safely than the one in which we now find ourselves. Even without the Trump buy-in, there is no way these jagoffs (including a company with another Lord of the Rings name) are going to safely run a nuclear reactor, let alone retire it safely at its end of its life. Waymo recently demonstrated that they hadn't bothered to think about how they would operate during a blackout, a scenario that over time is 100-percent certain to be relevant to any company operating in a city. Imagine the equivalent oversight with a nuclear reactor.