"Keeping them in service is much more profitable." Perhaps, but for how long? Profit over time from honest, new, innovative work can be much higher than scrapi

"Keeping them in service is much more profitable." Perhaps, but for how long? Profit over time from honest, new, innovative work can be much higher than scraping from the bottom of the barrel or from milking old achievements. (Just ask RIM or Nokia about how well that worked out for them.) But to do that, you have to have the freedom (from coercion, wherever it may come from) to engage in that honest, new and innovative work. For the most part, the computer industry has that freedom, but the nuclear industry does not.