Until the local government cuts funding to the nuclear plant. Then maintenance goes undone, and eventually you're leaking radioactive waste into the local envir

Until the local government cuts funding to the nuclear plant. Then maintenance goes undone, and eventually you're leaking radioactive waste into the local environment. If you build a wind farm in the desert, and in 40 years it's abandoned, it's not really a big deal. I guess you're unlucky, one of the turbines might fall on someone, but you're not going to have dangerous nuclear waste to dispose of. >How antiquated, you ask? In Washington, there is a pipe break every day. And according to EPA data, thousands of water and sewer systems across the country may be too old to function properly -- so old, in fact, that some were built during the Civil War. https://www.zdnet.com/article/despite-civil-war-era-pipes-americans-resist-water-infrastructure-renovation/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/despite-civil-war-era-pipes-am... Assume that anything you build today, may be abandoned in a few generations.