...Like shutting down those perfectly good nuclear reactors two years ago just to show the world they could and feel like superior beings, all at the same time. They purposefully decommissioned their last and perfectly operational nuclear reactors in mid-April of 2023, crowing about it as they did so. There has been no agreement since then to resume the use of nuclear energy via nuclear fission; moreover, doing so would contradict the objective set out in the Atomic Energy Act—namely, to bring the use of nuclear energy for the commercial generation of electricity to an orderly conclusion." Tl;dr the government decided to make nuclear illegal in 2011, which is why it has to be illegal. They said something defensible: that it was a political decision to make nuclear illegal, and it remains illegal to this day.