Worst story you ever wrote, Will.
Nuclear is just another form of extraction.
Issue the solar stipend, for solar product already put to use but not yet monetised, and there is more than enough money for everyone to install solar backed with hydrogen, to complete the task of going 100 percent solar, and an assured income of money with assured value is secured for all, forever, no need to carry on doing unsustainable things like nuclear.
Its worth about 500Bn to date in UK with around 20 percent solar already pushing down utilities energy business by the same amount, despite more ten percent rise in population in the same period.
In 2022 alone, 50Bn was added, and 160Bn is due to be added for 2023, taking the total to around 660Bn.
The year after that, it will be maybe 250Bn added, if nothing is paid out, but by then inflation will have removed an awful lot of value from money, because it is not being issued to reflect the actual product being put to use.
Surely you can see the inevitability of this.
Utilities energy business is already dead, they are going bankrupt in scores.
With 100 percent solar, the stipend will be around 5x what it is now. So with no further inflation, around 250Bn per year in UK.
That is a reasonable income for 70 million people, a very generous UBI, sustainable as long as the sun shines on Earth, with no pollution, and all things powered on green hydrogen, if they can't be connected directly to fixed electric supplies.
Why don't you write about that, instead of flogging the dead horse of nuclear.
It was only relevant, when grids were relevant.
If the US really wants to demonstrate its pioneering spirit to the world, it could demonstrate putting this to work.
This would be how to put the US back into number one position in the world economy, imho.
Wouldn't it be cool, if you were to be recognised as the first to champion it in the US?