# A Fundamental Problem We Must Address

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**Created:** [15 March 2025 20:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-fundamental-problem-we-must-address/5848 "2025-03-15T20:43:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2025 20:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-fundamental-problem-we-must-address/5848/1 "2025-03-15T20:43:12Z")

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> **[A Fundamental Problem We Must Address](https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252970)**
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> Remember Jimmy Carter? One of his key E/Os, which amusingly isn't prominently on display at his library (I went looking for it 10+ years ago) was his order halting all civilian nuclear fuel

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**Author:** ![Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2025 21:01 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-fundamental-problem-we-must-address/5848/2 "2025-03-15T21:01:16Z")

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Short version – government fickleness is the problem, in energy supply and elsewhere. There are two possible solutions:

1. Governmental reform, especially of regulation.
2. Poverty.

My guess is that we are going for solution #2. Once the electric supply becomes intermittent, we will learn that nuclear “waste” is dangerous only because it releases energy (i.e., it is valuable “fuel”). And we will learn we prefer pollution to poverty.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2025 21:17 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-fundamental-problem-we-must-address/5848/3 "2025-03-15T21:17:14Z")

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The worst thing Carter did was halt civilian nuclear fuel because it set us back by 50 years