Grab’em by the fuel rods.

Three Mile Island is a lesson apparently lost on the billionaire tech kids riding Trump’s descent into madness.

NPR obtained copies of over a dozen of the new orders, none of which is publicly available. The orders slash hundreds of pages of requirements for security at the reactors. They also loosen protections for groundwater and the environment and eliminate at least one key safety role. The new orders cut back on requirements for keeping records, and they raise the amount of radiation a worker can be exposed to before an official accident investigation is triggered. […] Backers of the reactors, including tech giants Amazon, Google and Meta, have said they want the reactors to one day supply cheap, reliable power for artificial intelligence.

The integrity controls aren’t being circumvented, they’re being rewritten by the entity charged with enforcing them, then shared with the regulated parties while being withheld from the public.

That’s not deregulation, that’s capture.

That’s privatization of the regulatory framework by the regulated to deny safety. The paperwork now follows action, not the other way around, which is how dictatorship works. It’s all fake accountability that tracks to pure corruption.

The nuclear regulator literally has been reorganized as a service provider for the entities it regulates. Like how ICE are just stormtroopers loyal to Trump, refusing to follow law or respect the Constitution. The criminals now are the ones wearing the badges, occupying political spaces to prevent anyone from invoking actual law that would stop crimes.

Over 500 pages of necessary security directives were slashed and burned down to 23 pages, for reactors that use higher levels of enriched uranium in their cores, which make them targets of theft.

More attractive targets, less security. This batshit threat model logic is by a small group of elites who plan to profit rapidly and hide, regardless of increased and widespread suffering.

Materials security for weapons-grade fuel, gutted so billionaires can shave construction costs?

No wonder the Big Tech boys keep buying their own islands, to isolate themselves from nuclear catastrophe they are rushing everyone else into.

Google Founder Larry Page Would Rather Die Self-Imprisoned on Desert Island Than Pay a Cent for Freedom