It’s crazy to me that policy makers insist that electricity generation has to be profitable. Just nationalize it. We could have a surplus of greenhouse gas free thermal power not only for electricity, but for heating and steel, fertilizer, and vehicle fuel production for years by now. Instead we have to wait to figure out how to satisfy investors and keep electricity just scarce enough.

People might not know, but Chernobyl was never actually shutdown. The reactor that blew up was obviously shutdown, but the entire plant kept operating for decades after the disaster.