The nuclear Labubu? Every governor’s got to have one

Why are US governors across the country chasing after new reactors as if they are the latest fad toy, a kind of nuclear Labubu? They are falling all over each other to get them like obsessive parents outside a toy store at dawn. New reactors will be over-priced, a longtime coming, and fizzle out quickly. The new nuclear reactor notion needs to be discarded as quickly as the latest gimmicks are. Watch our video. (Headline photo of a Labubu in Hong Kong International Airport republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)