There certainly are people whose careers depend on actually delivering power, eventually. They are disappointed when construction is delayed, and finally cance

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.