It's not nuclear power that I distrust, or the engineers that build it. It's the suits that work in the office.

We all accept a certain amount of risk all the time, no matter what we do, that's life. What I no longer trust is those who who will primarily benefit by my accepting that risk. They simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth when it might be against their interest. The lesson I learned from that time in my life, both by my experience and my participation in that industry, is that when there is a conflict of interest you simply cannot take their word for it, you cannot accept their research, you cannot listen to their arguments, you cannot believe their logic. It's not that they're necessarily deliberately lying to you, it's that in their greed and desperation to make things happen they are ready to lie to themselves.

It's not just in the field of nuclear energy that this holds true. In any aspect of public life, when someone tends to benefit from a specific outcome, you simply cannot accept their opinions on it at face value. It's not a moral issue at all, they may be convinced they're doing the right thing. That's what makes it so insidious. Give me an honest villain any day over a righteous investor.