> a rise in a managerial caste That's the problem right there. Pro-nuclear people like to scream about the hippies putting up too many barriers to nuclear pla

> a rise in a managerial caste That's the problem right there. Pro-nuclear people like to scream about the hippies putting up too many barriers to nuclear plants. Really it is just all the same middle-managers and dynamics at the jobs that they work at everyday. Everyone is willing to spend another few million dollars and a few weeks of delay, which only increases the fiefdom they control, to mitigate some risk and diffuse any possible blame to the rest of the committee. But that also means that we're not going to ever build like China unless our management culture fundamentally changes.