Nuclear Power Plants As Societal Control Mechanisms

John Kinsella

They can’t just be turned off, so government and companies have the ultimate control — it takes a highly specialised skillset to shut them down, and then to manage the shutdown across many decades, and through this, power structures assuredly maintain cohesion with the support of a fearful (consciously or unconsciously) populace who having been dragged into a reliance on the energy ‘provided’ by these plants sustain their existence and the persistence of the invested power structures. This is the ultimate life-death control scenario, and is, in its way, very similar to the use of nuclear weapons as threat.

And the press gloats that as Germany closes its last nuclear reactors, and sends them into the decommissioning process, Finland has just linked its Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor full-time to the power grid. Acclaimed as the largest nuclear reactor in Europe, and both predictably and ironically manufactured by Areva-Siemens, it is linked to a manipulation of the climate crisis to claim green credentials that is very much aligns with the French nuclear industry’s red-herring profiteering and consolidation of national-political power in Europe, and indeed globally. 

Governments work in different ways to control people, and this is one very deceptive and horrific way. It is not ‘green’, was never ‘green’, and will be the ultimate death of the planet if not pulled back as Germany has done (despite much conservative opposition sold as ‘environmentalism’ as it suits them). The materials that go into making these plants, and sustaining them, never mind anything else, are their own legacy of ecological abuse. Furthermore, we are expected to cede control over the environment for many future generations.

By way of a reality-check, try this brilliant video by long-term visual-word collaborators, Marc Atkins and Rod Mengham, ‘Where Suns Lie’, and its breakdown of, among many things, the deceptive and devious architecture of nuclear power plants.

One of the most egregious ‘sells’ of nuclear power in Europe at present revolves around the threat of gas supply from Russia due to the war with Ukraine. As we all experience the threat of catastrophe from the military actions and manipulations around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, one would expect more caution and risk-awareness to affect policy. But no, power plants are money, they are control (see above), and they are long-term no matter what. They are projections of power. They are not ‘green’, and they will not save the world. To the contrary...