> People will just try to do their job, and if they don't see an explicit (i.e. written) mandate somewhere that they need to prevent nuclear power plants from b

> People will just try to do their job, and if they don't see an explicit (i.e. written) mandate somewhere that they need to prevent nuclear power plants from being built, then they won't do it. This argument is naive to how organizations work. There are a million ways to loudly communicate policies around an organization that leads to the alignment of behavior to that policy without ever explicitly stating it. Hiring or promoting mainly anti-development regulators, assigning the loudest pro-development regulators to frustrating busy work with no prospects, raises, “reading between the lines” internal communication and so on. The result is a policy which most align with or leave, that everyone understands, but which can’t be proven in front of a congressional committee.