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You know what there's truth in that but they still have to come up with electricity for their long-term career viability. And they're happy when it happens, th

You know what there's truth in that but they still have to come up with electricity for their long-term career viability. And they're happy when it happens, they have a little event to celebrate completion, internally. Like breaking a bottle on a ship, that ship may have been contructed in a corrupt manner--don't count on it being so--but when it's fresh out of the shipyard, before it first sails, you break the bottle on it. IT HAS TO FLOAT FOR THE BOTTLE. And secondly a big thing is producing plutonium for the weapons program, they can't just fuck that up. America is a plutonium-exporting country, go right ahead and piss us off bad, like twice as pissed as after 9/11, really fuck us off, and we'll export to you anywhere in the world, even the base at the South Pole, even in space. I think the big thing that altered that was The Simpsons, which killed recruiting for nuclear engineers and nuclear scientists at all levels.

ncmncm 4y ago
There certainly are people whose careers depend on actually delivering power, eventually. They are disappointed when construction is delayed, and finally cancelled. But the majority who have any say don't care, so long as enough money changes hands. Civil reactors are not producing plutonium, for anybody. That needs cold neutrons. Probably what killed recruiting for nuke careers was, rather, Chernobyl and Fukushima. But it is remarkable how what was actually done at Santa Susana resembles the Simpsons' portrayal.