Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030

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64. Concentrated power likes...concentrated power.

Monopoly or near monopoly corporate control will do just as well. Preferably it's with one big plant and one big switch, with a spare of course.

This has the advantage that it's easy to explain and sell; it's a one line fix. And you only have to deal with other oligarchs in the construction, distribution and operation.

That spare though, it has to be used as well, but we can sell that power by running factories all night and loading the peasants with wasteful devices. We shall call these devices "appliances", and our citizens shall be called "consumers". It has a nice ring to it.

Uh, but now we need a spare for our spare. Hmm, plus our one big plant is not quickly responsive to demand. We can use coal and gas for the daytime peak. If anyone notices, we'll invent "baseload".

Some of those messy villagers may complain, but fuck 'em.