Our Atomic Dominoes are Falling

[Warpy]

24. You know who did the lying?

It was mostly the government. "Atoms for peace" was quite a sales job in the late 1950s and early 1960s, coming close on the heels of the "duck and cover" campaign. Talk about whiplash! The utilities didn't offer a peep of protest about the cost of such plants.

Plants do have a limited life and the earliest ones need to be mothballed or practically rebuilt. Concrete containment is cheap and dirty and works remarkably well but ionizing radiation does degrade it and everything else over time.

And they still don't know what to do with the garbage.

They solve those problems, maybe the people you hate to listen to will all go away. Until then, get used to it.