Like Joe Stalin at his most deranged, Donald Trump has pitched atomic power toward the abyss.
And we are all attached.
New US nukes have been priced out by solar, wind, geothermal, battery storage, efficiency, conservation.
More than 90% of the world’s added new energy capacity is renewable.
BUT Trump’s billionaire backers owe huge inventories of coal, oil, gas and uranium. They're desperate to cash out those fossil/nuke assets before renewables “strand” them all.
That they kill the planet—and us—is of no apparent concern.
And their decoy—nuclear power—is dead-ending.
Zero large atomic reactors are under construction in the US.
The final four have failed.
Two unfinished $9 billion reactor corpses lie dead at VC Summer, SC.
Two more at Vogtle, GA, cost $40 billion and 14 years to build.
Now they can’t compete with renewables, burn at 300 degrees Centigrade, spew radioactive carbon and waste.
Unproven, uninsured Small Reactors can’t impact our energy supply for a decade or more.
Soaring costs and failing production schedules have already sunk early deals.
